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If you look at the mythology of aliens, there's a lot about gold. It's about them coming for gold; whether that's a simplification or not. If you think of 'Chariot of the Gods,' there's this reoccurring theme of gold.
- Jon Favreau
#Coming
#Gods
#Gold
#Look
#Theme
When Iron Man's flying, we'd send real planes up to do the choreography so that we'd get the camerawork to really look like a cameraman was following from another plane. It gives it that 'Top Gun' look.
- Jon Favreau
#Gun
#Iron
#Look
#Man
#Real
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.
- Jon Favreau
#Always
#Chance
#My Own
#Own
#Shots
I don't have a lot of patience for movies that aren't cleanly told.
- Jon Favreau
#Lot
#Movies
#Patience
I think what's fun about the Western genre is the character arcs are very strong and, arguably, more interesting and exciting than the action that is metaphorically representational of those arcs.
- Jon Favreau
#Action
#Character
#Fun
#More
#Strong
When you're going for a big studio comedy, the joke tally better be pretty high, and you better have some big comedy set pieces. That was one of the issues when I was trying to get 'Swingers' made for the first time, which is that there weren't any broad comedy set pieces.
- Jon Favreau
#Better
#Comedy
#First Time
#Time
#Trying
I think 'Chef' is about somebody who's in the middle of his life, and he's kind of lost his passion and his voice, so he seeks out some refinement and redemption.
- Jon Favreau
#Chef
#Life
#Lost
#Passion
#Voice
There's a nostalgic aspect to the 'Iron Man' franchise for me.
- Jon Favreau
#Aspect
#Iron
#Man
#Me
#Nostalgic
Movies like 'Chef' are not really box-office monsters in the summertime and don't really fit into Hollywood's business model any longer. Even if 'Chef' is successful, it will be successful in the context of what it is. There's a limited upside to a film that's so small, but there's also limited exposure for the people who backed me.
- Jon Favreau
#Business
#Chef
#Me
#Movies
#People
People look at Marvel movies as epic in scope, but if you look back at the comics, you realise that Marvel heroes were often a reaction to the square-jawed DC characters like Superman, who were flawless and beyond reproach.
- Jon Favreau
#Back
#Beyond
#Look
#Movies
#People
The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.
- Jon Favreau
#Irony
#Men
#Movies
#Person
#Women
It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor. I look forward to exploring family entertainment once again and examining the specifics of our day-to-day lives against the backdrop of an extraordinary adventure.
- Jon Favreau
#Family
#Great
#Humor
#Look
#Parents
Christopher Nolan's 'Batman Begins' set the bar very high for the superhero movie, as it showed that you could get a great cast for these movies and take a real filmmaker's perspective.
- Jon Favreau
#Great
#High
#Movies
#Perspective
#Real
I can't begin to tell you how fulfilling the perennial nature of 'Elf' on television has been for me. It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor.
- Jon Favreau
#Children
#Great
#Humor
#Me
#Nature
#Parents
I've been fascinated by the world ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential' by Anthony Bourdain. I've watched 'Top Chef' and watched interviews with chefs on 'Charlie Rose'... I thought they're really intriguing characters, and they really encapsulate that tension between vision and commerce, art and commerce.
- Jon Favreau
#Art
#Chef
#Kitchen
#Vision
#World
At the end of the day, it seems like there's a critic archetype for food movies, like with 'Ratatouille' or anything. You know, if you were doing a puppet show about chefs, one puppet would be the chef, one would be the critic.
- Jon Favreau
#Chef
#Day
#End Of The Day
#Food
#Movies
For a movie - any movie - to work, all the bread has to fall jelly side up; everything has to go right. You have to hit the zeitgeist.
- Jon Favreau
#Bread
#Everything
#Fall
#Right
#Work
I was 22 and had worked on Wall Street for a year, and quit my job. I bought a motorcycle and sort of had this fantasy that I'd go cross-country like 'Easy Rider.' I went from New York to L.A., and on the way back, I stopped in Chicago and saw a friend of mine who was into improv. And I figured it might be fun to give it a shot.
- Jon Favreau
#Fun
#Motorcycle
#New
#Street
#Way
Get the shading right, the lighting right, and there are things you can do to make the CGI look more real. People end up going crazy and give themselves a little too much freedom in how they use CGI, and if you overuse it, it draws attention to itself.
- Jon Favreau
#Crazy
#Freedom
#Look
#People
#Real
Of course I danced a lot when I was making 'Swingers.' The swing music scene was big in Hollywood, and I went to places like The Derby. And, after I wrote it and was trying to get it made, I would go every week so I'd be good at dancing.
- Jon Favreau
#Big
#Good
#Music
#Places
#Trying
#Week
For me, I love food. It's my greatest pleasure and also the thing that could ruin you as well. It's one of those things where, if you're not thoughtful about it, it could be unhealthy. But if there's a mindfulness about it; it actually is a wonderful tool of emotional expression.
- Jon Favreau
#Food
#Love
#Me
#Pleasure
#Thoughtful
I find that people... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt.
- Jon Favreau
#Bad
#Doing
#Find
#Guilt
#People
I cooked a little bit in my first movie; I did a movie called 'Made.' For the little kid in the movie, I do a scene where I'm preparing a pasta puttanesca. I always loved watching that scene.
- Jon Favreau
#Always
#First
#Loved
#Pasta
#Watching
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.
- Jon Favreau
#Chemistry
#Find
#Lazy
#Nature
#Person
I did a guest thing on 'My Name Is Earl,' and there is something about being involved in a TV show that's in the midst of its popularity that frees up the creative process.
- Jon Favreau
#Name
#Popularity
#Process
#Something
#Up
I like happy endings in movies. I think life has a happy ending. When it's all said and done, it's all something worthwhile, and I want my movies to reflect that. There are enough things to be sad about. When you pop in a movie, let the message be one that's one of hope.
- Jon Favreau
#Ending
#Hope
#Life
#Movies
#Sad
Between the theme parks and the movies, the Disney iconography was probably the first set of archetypes that I was exposed to. Walt was able to expose me as a child to the full array of emotions, including fear and sorrow. Those movies and attractions haunted my dreams and made a deep impression on me as a child.
- Jon Favreau
#Dreams
#Emotions
#Fear
#Me
#Movies
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