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.

Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.

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

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.

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.

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

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