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 Read Quote
God, I’d love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too. Bob Balaban Read Quote
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 the game. Bob Balaban Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting. Bob Balaban Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 actually. Bob Balaban Read Quote
I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area. Bob Balaban Read Quote
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 forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions. Bob Balaban Read Quote
