"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."

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Bob Balaban

#Thinking Quotes #Games Quotes #Acting Quotes

“Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.”
“I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.”

Source : Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, suicidegirls.com. September 22, 2003.
“Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business; the trailer seldom goes far.”
“We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.”

Source : Interview with Don Gillespie, www.larrynorman.uk.com. 1980.
“In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting a handle on poetry of plainer speech than I had dwelt with heretofore. Which led me into a new appreciation of middle [William Butler ] Yeats, of the short three-beat line and forward-driving syntax, and that paid in, in turn, to a poem like Casualty in Field Work. The traffic, however, was usually the other way. My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.”

Source : Source: harvardmagazine.com
“It's funny, I worked with a lot of directors in the many years that I've been doing this, and generally when you hear a director yelling on set, everybody scatters in the other direction.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I was totally all about the American Girl dolls when I was little - I had so many.”
“We cannot avoid the globalization of knowledge and information. When I was a boy growing up in Kansas, I could never think about a Buddhist, or a Hindu, or Muslim, or even a Protestant - I grew up in such a Catholic ghetto. That's not possible anymore, unless you live in a cave or something. So either we have knowledge of what the other religions and other denominations are saying, and how they tie into the common thread, or we end up just being dangerously ignorant of other people and therefore prejudiced.”

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