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

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 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 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.

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.

My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.

When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.

Technology sounds quick and easy, but it ends up taking up too much of your time.

I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.

I am sick of being the victim of trends I reflect but don't even understand.

The more we learn, the more questions arise.

But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress - because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while.

To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living.

It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.

The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate. – When people ask you to tell them what to do, resist.