Stanley Tucci
People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.
I can remember the World's Fair in New York in 1964; I was three.
I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.
I would rather just do the things I want to do.
My late wife - she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn't be in that room because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn't be able to take care of the kids after.
As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.
I was always attracted to the past as a kid.
Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.
I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day.
I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.
I don't like to move the camera that much anyway.
Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.
Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.
I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.
I was dissatisfied just being an actor.
I'm a control freak. Totally.
I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.
The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.
I make time to write.
I write in the mornings. During my down time.
But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.
You gotta make the movie you want to make.
The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.
I never go overbudget on my movies.
I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.
I like to see how I can do it for less money.
And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.
I'm not saying they won't be bigger projects someday.
I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.
So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.
My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.
I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.
It's more interesting because you get to research the history of the period, and all the different aesthetic elements that make a film, particularly this film, so stunning.
As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.
Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.
I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.
When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.
I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging.
The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.
I would love to have my hair back and to be two inches taller - I am 5 ft. 8 in.
I wanted to be an architect, an artist, or an actor.
I don't like not being busy.
You don't want to watch people who are really awful. That's the goal whenever you're playing someone who's a little twisted. One of the important aspects of this is we just don't know who he is. Or who she is. And we find out along the way.
I live in London, and I spend a lot of time in England and have a lot of British friends.
I don't consider myself a mean person. I hope I'm not.
A dream that you don't fight for can haunt you for the rest of your life.Collection: Dream
If you find that thing you love, it doesn't necessarily matter whether you do it well or not-you just need to do it.Collection: Motivation
You have to be serious about what you do but you mustn't take yourself seriously. That way you'll be happier and ultimately you'll be more successful. You'll be better at what you do.Collection: Successful
Those moments in between the moments, those are the most interesting. What's unspoken, the way we talk around things, the way our actions are inconsistent with what we're feeling, how anger and affection manifest themselves in strange ways at inappropriate times.Collection: Interesting
I think everybody has a little bit of an asshole inside of them.Collection: Thinking