Book Quote by Gary Ross

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

— Gary Ross

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

— Gary Ross

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…

— Gary Ross

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

— Gary Ross

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 words and…

— Gary Ross

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

— Gary Ross

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

— Gary Ross

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

— Gary Ross

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

— Gary Ross

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

— Gary Ross

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

— Gary Ross

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

— Gary Ross