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.

I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually.

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.

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.

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

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.

I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.

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

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.

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.

God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.

Our bodies are simply our shells, the package for the spirit and the soul.

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.

In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness.

Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

If I had cared about her as I should have, as I thought I did, how could I have let her go?

My fans are the best. I mean if there was a war, I think they'd definitely win just because they'd kill them with kindness.

My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.