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
captivated combine fact movies obviously people seeing special trying
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.
trying failing can-not
Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.
hands always-trying people
I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I'm trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying.
born business dad fathers loved poet school sent writer
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.
began maybe official until
Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on.
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.
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.
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.