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

#box #captivated #combine #fact #just

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

— Bob Balaban

#commercial #god #i #interesting #lot

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

#acting #ahead #always #cares #casting

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

#beautifully #chicago #coming #doing #fairly

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

— Bob Balaban

#close #encounters #exciting #i #just

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

#go #i #idea #location #magical

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

#awards #called #couple #directed #good

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

#because #better #close #effects #encounters

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

— Bob Balaban

#avenue #born #drive #family #i

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

— Bob Balaban

#attention #been #i #paying #puppet