Gary Ross Quotes

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• You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.
• I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
• Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
• Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred…
• As a writer and a director, I simply don’t have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to…
• You rarely get a tentpole that has this much emotional depth, this much character to dive into.
• Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.
• As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going to be very…
• In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.
• Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and…
• 'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat.…
• There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.
• Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can…
• People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.
• Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene,…
• The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin -…
• History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and…
• You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.
• 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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