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

You show people playing poker or hacking into a computer; it feels so significant in the script, and then when you see it on the screen, it loses something. But there's something about cooking - food being prepared is incredibly captivating. It became just a fun box of tools to use as a director.

- Jon Favreau

I remember the first script I wrote after 'Swingers' was a Western, and I just couldn't get it made.

- Jon Favreau

I don't have a lot of patience for movies that aren't cleanly told.

- Jon Favreau

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

Especially in the food business, critics take very seriously how much power they have. They can shut a restaurant down.

- Jon Favreau

Comic Con has become a very relevant venue for all films.

- Jon Favreau

Back to the painting of the Sistine Chapel, there's always been run-ins between benefactors and artists.

- Jon Favreau

Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create what we create. It's almost like being an architect: You can't be an architect and build whatever buildings you want to.

- Jon Favreau

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

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

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

- Jon Favreau

I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance.

- Jon Favreau

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

- Jon Favreau

I don't think I'm egotistical as much as I'm taking responsibility for what I'm putting out there.

- Jon Favreau

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

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

People think bigger movies are bad, and that's just not true - there's bad big films, and there's bad little ones. The bad big ones have to make their money back, so they'll push them down your throat, but the little ones just disappear if they're bad.

- Jon Favreau

I don't want to be an art-house movie guy, where people who go to film school can discuss your work, but people who haven't studied cinema can't appreciate it. By the same token, I don't want to be the guy who's making this commercial pap that people lap up but that disappears the minute you leave the theater.

- Jon Favreau

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