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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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"The person whose attention is in the 'pure Soul' is known as a renowned person. No one in the past had been celebrated as a famous person, they were called renowned persons. To be famous is the result of an 'above normal' state."

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"Everybody-even monsters-needed a little attention once in a while."

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"You don't care for anybody... you just do it for attention, isn't it true?"

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"When you are "off somewhere else" people notice. Have you found yourself in conversations in which you're so concerned about what you are going to say next, that you don't even hear what the other person is saying? Guilty as charged, right?"

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"The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention."

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"I need attention?No...I need victim....!"

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"Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance."

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"Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away."

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"N order to capture someone's attention, you must allow them to have the mental and emotional space to let you in."

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"Better ignore it than halfheartedly listen!"

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

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Bob Balaban
"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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Bob Balaban
"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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Bob Balaban
"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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Bob Balaban
"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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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
"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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