top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."
Author Name
Personal Development
"One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I don't even know what TV star means. I know there's a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately."
Author Name
Personal Development
"That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I would like to see a fierce Fantasia mixed with Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars all in one. That's the kind of movies I want to make."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"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."
Movies
"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."
Change
"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."
Business
"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."
Love
"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."
People
"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."
Acting
"I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area."
Family
"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."
Love
"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."
Movies
"If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young."
Attention
bottom of page