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Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954) is an American filmmaker and actor. Howard first came to prominence as a child actor, gaining national attention for playing the son of Sheriff Andy Taylor in The Andy Griffith Show from 1960 -1968. During this time, he also appeared in the musical film The Music Man (1962), a critical and commercial success. Howard was cast in one of the lead roles in the coming-of-age film American Graffiti (1973), which received widespread acclaim and became one of the most profitable films of all time. The following year, Howard became a household name for playing Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days , a role he would play from 1974 through 1980. In that year Howard left Happy Days to focus on directing, producing and occasionally writing variety films and television series. His films include the science-fiction/fantasy Cocoon (1985), the historical docudrama Apollo 13 (1995), the Christmas comedy How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), the biographical drama A Beautiful Mind (2001), the thriller The Da Vinci Code (2006), the historical drama Frost/Nixon (2008), Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), and the documentary Pavarotti (2019). For A Beautiful Mind , Howard won the Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Picture.
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"Early in the second season of ‘The Andy Griffith Show,’ I ventured a suggestion for a line change to make it sound more 'like the way a kid would say it .’ I was just 7 years old. But my idea was accepted, and I remember standing frozen, thrilled at what this moment represented to me."
"Everything’s always about page-turning, right? What’s next? So, if you create questions for audiences, then they’ll want to know the answer. Or they begin to formulate possible outcomes. That’s the game we play when we’re hearing a story unfold. That’s part of what sucks us into a movie."
"I love leaving the door open to good ideas. I love the collaborative swirl. I get charged by problem-solving, usually under some kind of stress - the sun is going down, and we have eight minutes, and we have to solve it. Great things come out of it."
"I’ve worked with Bette Davis, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda. Here’s the thing they all have in common: They all, even in their 70s, worked a little harder than everyone else."
"As a director, I’ve wanted to have adventure in my life, creative adventure. I think it’s partly because I grew up, basically from age six to 26, mostly on television series where the producers find something that works and then just do it over and over and over again."
"I don’t vacation on the water. I’m a pale-skinned redhead; I get sunburned out there. I’m a little frightened of the ocean, in fact. But I just know there’s great drama out there."
"My folks met at the University of Oklahoma, in the theater department in the 1940s. They were married touring the country in 'Cinderella ’ and ’ Snow White .’ My mother was married in Cinderella’s costume; the dwarves were the best men."
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"Early in the second season of ‘The Andy Griffith Show,’ I ventured a suggestion for a line change to make it sound more 'like the way a kid would say it .’ I was just 7 years old. But my idea was accepted, and I remember standing frozen, thrilled at what this moment represented to me."
"Everything’s always about page-turning, right? What’s next? So, if you create questions for audiences, then they’ll want to know the answer. Or they begin to formulate possible outcomes. That’s the game we play when we’re hearing a story unfold. That’s part of what sucks us into a movie."
"I love leaving the door open to good ideas. I love the collaborative swirl. I get charged by problem-solving, usually under some kind of stress - the sun is going down, and we have eight minutes, and we have to solve it. Great things come out of it."
"I’ve worked with Bette Davis, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda. Here’s the thing they all have in common: They all, even in their 70s, worked a little harder than everyone else."
"As a director, I’ve wanted to have adventure in my life, creative adventure. I think it’s partly because I grew up, basically from age six to 26, mostly on television series where the producers find something that works and then just do it over and over and over again."
"I don’t vacation on the water. I’m a pale-skinned redhead; I get sunburned out there. I’m a little frightened of the ocean, in fact. But I just know there’s great drama out there."
"My folks met at the University of Oklahoma, in the theater department in the 1940s. They were married touring the country in 'Cinderella ’ and ’ Snow White .’ My mother was married in Cinderella’s costume; the dwarves were the best men."