Gary Ross Quotes

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

Put, Everybody, Wants

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 lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.
Gary Ross

Off, Fail, Films

Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
Gary Ross

Religion, Time, Science

My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.
Gary Ross

Different, Wanted, Normal

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 CG shots is a pretty big plan.
Gary Ross

Made, Pretty, Big

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

Love, Movies, Godfather

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

Work, Actor, Star

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

Seems, Ambitious, Handle

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

Film, Bit, Camera

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

Two, Team, Kids

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

Nothing, Rather, Sit

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 the shape and the sound.
Gary Ross

Music, Writing, Words

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 mean.
Gary Ross

Mean, Off, Disappear

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 much fuller, richer life that's also not as scary.
Gary Ross

Life, Scared, Scary

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

Great, Children, Why

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.
Gary Ross

Life, Everything, Complexity

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 it's important to walk the walk. It's a wonderful shared time.
Gary Ross

Time, Respect, Important

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

Important, Making, While

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Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: November 3, 1956

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