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

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.

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.

I just thought that was the most noble contribution you could make to human kind, was to be a teacher.

My role model is my dad.

At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.

Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves

I am the thought you are now thinking.

Because I know war... because I know the horror, I don't want to add to it. .........After the war, we felt the need to celebrate life, and for me photography was the means to achieve this.

Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn.

I carry thoughts of you like my own personal constellation. How far away you are, my dearest friend, but no farther than those fixed stars in my soul.

We’re more than just our dresses.

No man is useless while he has a friend.