"And I think being a good director is……" — 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 while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime."
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22 Quotes by Bob Balaban
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I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew…
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I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting…
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My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and…
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If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very…
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People so far have been very fond of the Robert Altman movie, as I am, and when one things goes…
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I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I…
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I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.
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God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting…
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I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.
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I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a…
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I produced and directed a movie a couple years ago that won some awards that Samuel Goldwyn released called 'The…
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I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects…
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