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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."

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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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"I make movies I want to see."

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"I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations."

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"I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions."

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"Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars."

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"All I do is go to the movies."

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"One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that."

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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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"There's an electrical thing about movies."

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"I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.'"

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"Do you remember a scene with Ryan and Ali playing in the snow? Well, that was improvised."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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

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Bob Balaban
"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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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."

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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."

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

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