Bob Balaban Quotes

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• I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I…
• I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of…
• My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous,…
• If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.
• People so far have been very fond of the Robert Altman movie, as I am, and when one things goes well it shines light on…
• I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have…
• I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.
• And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the…
• God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.
• I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.
• I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something…
• I produced and directed a movie a couple years ago that won some awards that Samuel Goldwyn released called 'The Last Good Time'. I wrote,…
• I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better…
• I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and…
• I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became…
• I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I'm trying…
• My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery…
• Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early…
• Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.
• My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved…

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