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Bob Balaban quotes

American Actor August 16, 1945

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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 was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening. Bob Balaban
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, thank God. Bob Balaban
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 love coming back and try to do so fairly often. Bob Balaban
My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative. Bob Balaban
Bob Balaban quote: "God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of..."
God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too. Bob Balaban
Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays. Bob Balaban
Bob Balaban quote: "I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven..."
I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting. 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 of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago. Bob Balaban
Bob Balaban quote: "I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains..."
I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area. 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. Bob Balaban
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, produced and directed it, but I wasn't in it. Bob Balaban
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 store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business. Bob Balaban
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 your other projects and now I seem to have a number of projects that are moving forward. Bob Balaban
But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box. 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 and I'm trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying. Bob Balaban

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