Actor Quotes

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

I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually.

I produced and directed a movie a couple years ago that won some awards that Samuel Goldwyn released called 'The Last Good Time'. I wrote, produced and directed it, but I wasn't in it.

I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.

You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.

Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.

The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie.

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married.

In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're so critical.

I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer.

I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.

I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly.

I was a huge fan of the original 'Star Trek,' and I'd never even dreamed that I would someday be captain of a starship.

I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.

I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field.

I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading that program to come to some kind of international agreement so that doesn't happen. That is my only - fear - in further space exploration like always, we hope it doesn't get abused.

And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.

A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.

I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!

Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.