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🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Introducing Ron Howard: “Understand the entertainment value of an idea.” from Math & Magic: Stories from the Frontiers of Marketing with Bob Pittman.

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Ron Howard is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Emmy, and Grammy award-winning film director. With work spanning from comedies like Splash and Parenthood to critically acclaimed dramas like Apollo 13, Frost/Nixon and A Beautiful Mind, he is one of the most popular and prolific filmmakers of the last 50 years. His first on-screen appearance was at just 18 months old and he was cast as Opie on The Andy Griffith Show at age five. By the time he was 10, adults on set predicted he would make a great director; but at the time, it was a major challenge to transition from acting to directing feature films. In his conversation with Bob, Ron shares how he leveraged one green light to make that improbable jump, how his feelings about collaboration have changed over his career, and his advice for young people in the entertainment industry today.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Math and Magic, a production of IHeart Podcasts.
0:07.0	Where is there alignment there? Your sensibilities and an audience's sensibilities. I think if you want to be a filmmaker, it all starts with understanding what you love and what audiences love and how you can connect these things, these truths.
0:26.9	Hi, I'm Bob Pittman. Welcome to this episode of Math and Magic, Stories from the Frontiers
0:31.3	and Marketing. Today we're going to explore storytelling and the business of movie and TV production
0:36.8	with a focus on creativity and audience
0:38.8	engagement. And we're going to learn from one of the greatest directors of our generation, Ron Howard.
0:44.5	Ron was born in Oklahoma, grew up in L.A., was an amazingly successful child actor, starting with
0:50.2	his character on the long-running Andy Griffith's show, but continued that momentum with
0:54.7	his roles in American Graffiti and Happy Days. He then did what few actors do. He made the jump to
1:01.0	director, and he did it at a super young age with a body of work that has genre versatility and huge
1:06.9	box office success as well as critical acclaim. He's won Academy Awards, Emmys, Golden Globes,
1:12.7	and more, and he's got a lot to tell us about connecting with audiences, effective storytelling,
1:18.0	and collaboration. But most important, he's one of the most thoughtful and nicest power
1:23.0	players in Hollywood. Ron, welcome. Well, thank you. Thanks for that intro. I don't know if I can live up to
1:28.3	all that, but we'll see what we can do. Before we dig into the meaty stuff, I want to do you in 60
1:33.7	seconds. Ready to go? All right, try me. Cats or dogs? You see, I'm not such a black and white guy.
1:40.9	If I really had to choose, I'll go with dog, but I've got a lot of affection
1:44.4	for cats. I won't tell any of the cats you decided against them. Early riser or night owl?
1:49.8	Early riser. City or country? I love people, and there are more of them there in the city.
1:54.9	East coast or west coast? I prefer the East Coast. Are you an introvert or extrovert?
1:59.7	Introvert, happy to talk to people, just a little socially reluctant.
2:04.7	Fiction or documentary?
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