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 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 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.

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

The odds are, you highly underestimate how awesome you are. Stop doing that.

Grief is a hone to a hard mind.

A man with awareness lives in a world much prettier and much richer than the world a man without awareness lives in!

That I was sleeping at a time when my husband was dying is so horrible a thought, I can’t confront it.

Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance.

The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.

As long as we avoid the creative, we are condemned to reaction.

Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.

Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.

Once we open up to the flow of energy within our body, we can also open up to the flow of energy in the universe.