Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pr…

- Gary Ross

'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Ever…

- Gary Ross

Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene because you need to keep…

- Gary Ross

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confus…

- Gary Ross

Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.

- Gary Ross

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generat…

- Gary Ross

As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make because of the fixed and tigh…

- Gary Ross

Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.

- Gary Ross

In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

- Gary Ross