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Bob Balaban
American
Actor
Born:
Aug 16
,
1945
Family
Love
People
Think
Time
You
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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.
Bob Balaban
Moving Forward
People
Light
Other
Projects
Seem
Fond
Robert
Well
Am
Been
Shines
Very
Goes
Movie
Moving
Far
Your
Forward
Now
Things
Number
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.
Bob Balaban
Me
Immediately
Would
Exaggerating
Fact
Put
Exciting
Know
Until
Am
Began
Up
Very
Official
Maybe
Place
Little
Fantasies
Them
Then
Your
Early
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.
Bob Balaban
God
Family
Thank God
Dangerous
Could
Supportive
Were
Affectionate
Very
Thank
Wanted
Anything
Loving
Basically
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.
Bob Balaban
Business
Creative
School
Poet
Baby
Would
Born
Something
Writer
He
Him
Were
Been
Very
Loved
Sent
Successful
Business School
Dad
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.
Bob Balaban
Saying
You
People
Better
New Things
Television
Television Series
Directed
New
Fair
Fair Amount
Learn
Always
Up
Get
Trying
Just
Episode
Should
Series
Amount
Things
Shut
Shut Up
Watch
I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.
Bob Balaban
Family
Other
Out
Paramount
Head
Became
Around
Came
Were
Years
Chicago
Movie
Theaters
Movie Theaters
Them
Then
Production
Chain
Started
I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.
Bob Balaban
You
Money
Relatives
Forcing
Stage
Incredibly
Charging
Boring
See
Boring Things
Come
Know
Felt
Were
Very
Little
Room
Them
Much
Creating
Productions
Fascinating
Things
I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.
Bob Balaban
Family
Drive
Avenue
Born
Area
Remains
Wellington
Shore
Lake
Lives
I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.
Bob Balaban
Spielberg
Exciting
Steven
Steven Spielberg
Encounters
Close
Just
Being
Loved
Working
Watch
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.
Bob Balaban
People
Think
Way
Television
Seeing
Magic
Fact
He
Combine
Undercut
Obviously
Box
Were
Began
Trying
Just
Movies
Special
Captivated
Things
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