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.

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.

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

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.

This was cheering. The real world was still there, it still contained puppies being puppies and cats being cats.

Only afterward did the guilt set in--the guilt that for a few minutes he let himself stop feeling guilty.

The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you're trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.

My wit is more polished than your mustache. The truth which I speak strikes more sparks from men's hearts than your spurs do from the cobblestones.

You treat anyone normally, and they'll treat you normally back.

As a government employee, you can't testify against the government.

Were it not for the amusement of our books, we should be moped to death for want of occupation. It rains incessantly. ... we tickle ourselves in order to laugh; to so low an ebb are we reduced.

Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment.

Having faith does not mean having no difficulties, but having the strength to face them, knowing we are not alone.

Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a whole that is greater than scientific perception.