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

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 was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.

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.

My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

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.