Bob Balaban

Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.

— Bob Balaban

Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was…

— Bob Balaban

I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also…

— Bob Balaban

My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably…

— Bob Balaban

If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.

— Bob Balaban

My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it…

— Bob Balaban

And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator…

— Bob Balaban

People so far have been very fond of the Robert Altman movie, as I am, and when one things goes well it…

— Bob Balaban

I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were…

— Bob Balaban

I produced and directed a movie a couple years ago that won some awards that Samuel Goldwyn released called 'The Last Good…

— Bob Balaban

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well,…

— Bob Balaban

I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.

— Bob Balaban

I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because…

— Bob Balaban

I?m from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one…

— Bob Balaban

God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.

— Bob Balaban

My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a…

— Bob Balaban

Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was…

— Bob Balaban

I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater…

— Bob Balaban

Holocaust is very much a part of present discussion all over the place. There are little plaques everywhere you go around in…

— Bob Balaban

I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a…

— Bob Balaban

I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.

— Bob Balaban

But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these…

— Bob Balaban

I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held…

— Bob Balaban