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.

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.

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.

She accused me of wearing pants from the salvation army.""Rose, your pants ARE from the salvation army.""That's SO not the point!

When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!

Information paints no picture, sings no song, and writes no poem.

You try to do as little as you can, but you need to do as much as is necessary to get a result. When you get a result, you do less.

To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a full measure of courage and occasional luck!

But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.

As far as I'm concerned playing 'Dress Up' begins at the age of five, and never truly ends.

The main dividing line is still race. This is the issue that must be focused upon in all working class organizations.

I don't buy into the word "failure." I used to but not anymore. Trying not to fail is the opposite of art.