Jon Favreau Quotes

Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie.

I don’t ‘handle’ people. It’s so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It’s very easy to say whatever’s going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It’s difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that.

I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.

I’m a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn’t study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.

I’ve always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.

Thankfully, I have a background as an actor, and you learn how to live in that world of not knowing what’s going to happen next.