Bob Balaban
Bob Balaban
Robert Elmer "Bob" Balabanis an American actor, author, producer, and director. He was one of the producers nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for Gosford Park, in which he also appeared...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth16 August 1945
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
thinking able directors
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.
trying failing can-not
Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.
thinking games acting
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.
thank-god supportive my-family
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.
puppets serious attention
If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.
moving light numbers
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.
growing-up children acceptance
I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening.
lakes my-family born
I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.
interesting plot made
God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.
watches encounters exciting
I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.
mean ideas special
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.
couple years awards
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.
creating littles rooms
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.
years chicago my-family
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.