Ron Howard: Evolve your vision
Masters of Scale
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🗓️ 15 August 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
How do you stay true to your vision for your company amid constant, unpredictable change? And how do you stay true to a singular vision, while also letting it evolve? These are questions every leader needs to consider as they rally people, resources and opportunities to make their vision a reality.
Celebrated filmmaker Ron Howard has a remarkable ability to maintain his vision of creating captivating and deeply human stories — while strengthening how he delivers this vision by incorporating changes in technology, audience tastes and styles of filmmaking.
In this episode you'll hear how Ron set out to deliver his vision through movie-making; how he and producer Brian Grazer co-founded Imagine Entertainment and made a string of visionary box office hits; and how Ron continues to embrace advances in technology to scale his vision.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Bob Safian. You've been hearing me as the host of rapid response in this feed for a few years now, |
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| 0:31.2 | I'll see you on the other side. I was out there hustling and not |
| 0:37.2 | getting a lot of parts. I was no longer being hired because I was now a pimply faced kid at age 16. |
| 0:48.0 | They could hire an 18 year old to play my part and they wouldn't have the limitations of working hours and so forth. |
| 0:57.6 | That was the way the business worked. |
| 1:02.3 | That struggling young actor is Ron Howard. |
| 1:05.0 | Through his childhood he'd become known for his roles as a wholesome all-American boy, |
| 1:09.0 | but as an awkward adolescent he'd take any role he could get. So when he landed... As an I went into this audition but there was no Pinto there. |
| 1:25.0 | It's just an empty room and a row of producers, brand, people, and casting directors. |
| 1:35.0 | As it was only the addition and not the actual shoot, |
| 1:39.0 | Ron took the lack of a car in stride. |
| 1:42.0 | But then he discovered another glaring omission. |
| 1:45.6 | I noticed there wasn't really any dialogue. And they said, well there's no |
| 1:50.2 | no there's no dialogue, this is going to be nonverbal it's just about a young |
| 1:53.2 | guy who's just gotten a Pinto and he's really excited about this Pinto in fact he's |
| 1:58.7 | washing the Pinto I say oh okay great then Ron received his first I said, oh, okay, great. |
| 2:06.0 | Then Ron received his first piece of direction. Could you wash the Pinto? |
| 2:08.0 | And I said, well, do you have one outside or something? |
| 2:10.0 | I said, no, no, no, just could you mind it? |
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