Ron Howard
A Beautiful Mind, released in 2001, is the film that brought Ron Howard the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Picture, the two honors that mark the summit of his work as a filmmaker.
Howard was born Ronald William Howard on March 1, 1954, in Duncan, and grew up to become a citizen of the United States who worked primarily in English. He started his career as a child actor, accumulating early experience that would shape his understanding of performance and production. His formal education took him through John Burroughs High School and then to the University of Southern California, including the USC School of Cinematic Arts, as well as a period of training at Desilu. From those foundations he built a career that eventually encompassed work as a film director, film producer, television director, television producer, screenwriter, film actor, television actor, and voice actor — a range of roles that made him one of the more broadly active figures in American entertainment.
Over the course of that career, Howard accumulated a substantial list of honors. In addition to his two Academy Awards, he received two Golden Globe Awards and two Grammy Awards. The National Medal of Arts came to him in 2003, and in 2013 he was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame further marks his sustained presence in the industry.
That Television Hall of Fame induction in 2013 is itself a reminder of how much of Howard's professional identity was shaped by his earliest years in front of the camera, long before he moved behind it. The child actor who learned his craft on television sets eventually became the director and producer whose work earned recognition at the highest levels of both the film and television industries. His induction into the Television Hall of Fame in 2013 closes a particular arc: the medium that first put him to work ultimately enshrined him among those it considers its own.
Quotes by Ron Howard
Unlike the twisters he famously chased in the movies, Bill Paxton was the kind of force of nature you ran toward and never away from.
When 'Apollo 13' appeared as an opportunity and I began to tackle that in as authentic a way as I possibly could, I really became enthralled by the philosophical side of space travel and why we need to explore - what it means to us here on Earth - all of those things. I became a huge proponent.
When you read about it, you realize that mental illness is so prevalent. People didn't always have the right terms for it, but most families have had a brush with it.
I'm interested in all forms of content, including Internet and gaming. On the TV side, cable has sparked a renaissance of the medium and that will continue for storytellers.
The story of John Nash is an amazing, powerful journey. But as unique as this man is, his story is also very accessible because it is so heartbreakingly human.
It's hard to define change in oneself unless something really dramatic happens, like you give up some vice, fall in love, or something like that.
I was very intimidated by the visual effects world. But I began to realize that you don't have to know everything. You have to be able to talk about story.
When you're young and you're striving, it's all uphill, and it's easier to climb. Then, when you get and look around, you sort of say, 'Wow, the altitude's kinda thin up here!'
I can't say that I am a DVD junkie. I see most films that I want to see in the theater, and so most of my DVD-watching is catching up with the occasional movies that I missed or revisiting a film that I really care about, in which case I really want the extra channels, because it's a movie that I already love, and I want to know more about it.
