How is being a director like going on a diet? Both of them require commitment, cause lots of stress, and can result in dramatic weight loss.<\/p>\n
While chatting about his happiest movie memories, “Rush” director Ron Howard revealed the experience that caused him equal parts exhaustion and elation.<\/p>\n
“An incredibly happy movie experience was the first movie that I directed, ‘Grand Theft Auto,'” Howard told Moviefone. “Very low budget, hectic — I mean, I was 23 years old, in great condition, and I still lost fifteen pounds during the four weeks that it took us to shoot the movie.”<\/p>\n
Wait, this was a happy experience, right?<\/p>\n
“It was exhausting. But when it was over, my wife Cheryl was there, my parents were there, my dad had been in the movie — we wrote it together; it was kind of a family thing for Roger Corman, the famous B-movie producer. We had crashed all these cars, we’d blown up everything we were supposed to blow up, and I was sitting there having gone through the movie and I thought, I actually enjoyed this more than I ever dreamed I would. And I’d been dreaming of being a director ever since I was a little kid, and I knew that this was what I was going to try to do with my adult life.”