American - Actor | August 16, 1945 -
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
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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