As a conservative, I don't do a lot of talking with my fellow workers about politics. The business is — I don't want to say 'infested' but I will — with a lot of liberal-minded people, so when I go to work, I do my job. Away from work, I have a very wonderful group of like-minded friends and we gather and we share values and we get along great.

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It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone's disposal. But I wanted to become a leader in the business.

destiny leader dream

One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.

movie choices inspiring

Confidence is preparation in action. by Ron Howard

Confidence is preparation in action.

preparation self-esteem action

I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we as a species are scratching that itch we're actually following an evolutionary compulsion that is wired into us. I think good things come of it. That's the philosophical side.

philosophical trying thinking

If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.

acting ifs jobs

I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all.

exercise character thinking

There's a very real argument that the minute we are capable of going to a planet, whether it's Mars or another one, and inhabiting it, that we really should.

mars argument real

Death can be experienced once, winning maybe more, but losing can... by Ron Howard

Death can be experienced once, winning maybe more, but losing can happen all the time.

losing winning happens

Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

tunnels humor light

I'm not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past the special-interest groups and do what you're there to do, which is make a movie.

creative special past

I think the most important thing really was that you could take very personal ideas and present them to an audience in entertaining ways.

important ideas thinking

Sports always works for us more allegorically or metaphorically and that's what's fantastic about why we love them. You demonstrate the limits to which a human being can go and they keep pushing the boundaries of that.

pushing limits sports

The sooner we become a multi-planet species, the safer the species is, and the stronger the guarantee that we're going to continue to evolve.

guarantees-that planets stronger

You're always a little surprised when something really takes off. by Ron Howard

You're always a little surprised when something really takes off.

Every religion, in my opinion, has something to bring, and I think we all learn from everyone that there's no right, perfect way to look at something.

perfect looks thinking

I've acted with all types, I've directed all types. What you want to understand as a director, is what actors have to offer. They'll get at it however they get at it. If you can understand that, you can get your work done.

actors want directors

I think more and more scientists are becoming convinced that it's very likely that life forms of some kind exist all around the universe not so far from us.

becoming kind thinking

I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't... by Ron Howard

I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.

roles lust thinking

3-D is a truly exciting possibility. by Ron Howard

3-D is a truly exciting possibility.

possibility exciting

It was always hard to find stories that I felt were, in and of themselves, fresh enough and intriguing enough .

intriguing enough stories