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Gary Ross

(1956) Screenwriter

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Gary Ross is a screenwriter, best known for Who Watches the Watchmen?.

Quick Facts About Gary Ross

Born: November 3, 1956
Profession: Screenwriter
Notable works: Who Watches the Watchmen?

About Gary Ross

Gary Ross is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. He is best known for writing and directing the fantasy comedy-drama film Pleasantville (1998), the sports drama film Seabiscuit (2003), the dystopian action film The Hunger Games (2012), and the heist comedy film Ocean's 8 (2018). Ross has been nominated for four Academy Awards.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Gary Ross

Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off…

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I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day.…

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People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.

Actor

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You rarely get a tentpole that has this much emotional depth, this much character to dive into.

Character

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I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been…

Almost

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'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.

Ambitious

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You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free,…

Complexity

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I have some favorites. I love Chaplin; I mean I really love Chaplin. I just think there's a grace and an elegance…

Beauty

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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into…

Adopted

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Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was…

Fence

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I mean, in 'Big' and 'Pleasantville,' it's a journey that the characters go on where I think they come to kind of…

Actually

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It's interesting - in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that…

Armageddon

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The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate…

Berlin

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There is no right way to live. You preclude a lot of life by trying to conform to that kind of ideal…

Chaotic

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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take…

Almost

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As a writer and a director, I simply don’t have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would…

Cinema

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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own…

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You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.

Communication

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There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the…

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I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.

Instruments

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

Any

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What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big,…

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Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If…

Any

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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'

Design

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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.

Always

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There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.

Gary

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The dynamic range of a digital camera is not that much greater than film, particularly if you push the ASA a little…

Bit

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

Believe

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

Doe

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

Children

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Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.

Film

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

After

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My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for…

Different

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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did.…

Actually

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If you look at the opening of 'Private Ryan,' you are so in the point of view of those guys and there…

Around

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You can't tell your kids to read if you're just watching television. They have to see you read. And in that respect,…

I think

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As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going…

Bed

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Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was…

Change

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We repress the things we're scared of, but if we just look at and embrace the things we're scared of, it's a…

Also

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I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just…

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