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.

If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.

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.

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.

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.

I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.

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.