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"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish."
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"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."
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"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."
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"You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year."
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"I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid."
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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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"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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"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."
Family
"I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area."
Family
"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."
People
"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."
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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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"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."
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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."
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"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."
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