Bob Balaban Quotes

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

  Bob Balaban

  Serious, Attention, Puppets

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2006.

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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 love coming back and try to do so fairly often.

  Bob Balaban

  Sister, Niece, Father

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• 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

  Couple, Awards, Years

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• Holocaust is very much a part of present discussion all over the place. There are little plaques everywhere you go around in different neighborhoods. "This person here was prosecuted." "This person was sent to this concentration camp." "A family of Jews lived here. They took over his business." Little, very discrete, very dignified plaques are everywhere.

  Bob Balaban

  Holocaust, Different, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Special, Encounters

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• 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

  Creating, Littles, Rooms

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2003.

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• 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

  Years, Chicago, My Family

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• 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

  Hands, Always Trying, People

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• 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

  Children, Dad, Grandmother

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2003.

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• 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

  Play, Theater, Hooked

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2003.

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• I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see; you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.

  Bob Balaban

  Mean, Ideas, Special

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2003.

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

  Bob Balaban

  Encounters, Watches, Exciting

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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 too.

  Bob Balaban

  Interesting, Plot, Made

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Thinking, Directors, Dimes

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

  Bob Balaban

  Lakes, My Family, Born

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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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

  Children, Growing Up, Acceptance

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 03, 2003.

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• 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

  Moving Forward, Numbers, Light

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• 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

  Supportive, Thank God, My Family

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2008.

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• 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

  Thinking, Games, Acting

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

  Bob Balaban

  Trying, Failing, Can Not

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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