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Stanley Tucci
American
Actor
About the author
I'm a control freak. Totally.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Control
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.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Film
#History
#Research
I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Time
#Old
I write in the mornings. During my down time.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Time
I would rather just do the things I want to do.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Want
I was dissatisfied just being an actor.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Being
#Actor
I was always attracted to the past as a kid.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Past
I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Actor
When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
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.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#People
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.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Want
#Will
#Movies
People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#People
#Law
#Theater
So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Hope
#People
#Act
#Living
#Movies
Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Film
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.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#May
#Reality
#Extreme
#Project
I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Genius
The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Acting
You gotta make the movie you want to make.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Want
The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Talk
#Majority
#Actors
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.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Day
#Change
And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Love
#Projects
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.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Film
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.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Acting
#Actors
Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Night
I make time to write.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Time
Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Film
#Silly
I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Love
I don't like to move the camera that much anyway.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
I like to see how I can do it for less money.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Money
I never go overbudget on my movies.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Movies
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.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Writing
I'm not saying they won't be bigger projects someday.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Saying
#Projects
I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Money
#Project
I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#Will
I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.
Stanley Tucci,
American
Actor
#First
#Actor