Gary Ross

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

— Gary Ross

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…

— Gary Ross

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

— Gary Ross

There's nothing I'd rather do than sort of, you know, sit at my computer and rhyme.

— Gary Ross

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

— Gary Ross

I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in…

— Gary Ross

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

— Gary Ross

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

— Gary Ross

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

— Gary Ross

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

— Gary Ross

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

— 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…

— Gary Ross

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

— Gary Ross

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

— Gary Ross

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

— Gary Ross

If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in…

— Gary Ross

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

— Gary Ross

I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.

— 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…

— Gary Ross

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

— Gary Ross

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

— Gary Ross

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

— Gary Ross