Ron Howard has been a staple in American pop culture for decades. From Mayberry’s Opie Taylor in The Andy Griffith Show to Richie Cunningham in Happy Days, Ron Howard has engrained himself in the Hollywood landscape.

Not bound by any single genre, Howard has gone onto direct a wide array of films, including Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, and his latest, In the Heart of the Sea, starring Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker and Cillian Murphy.

Watch his Reddit AMA session above as Howard tackles the holidays, how he works onset, and maintaining a nice-guy-attitude in spite of it all.

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