Quotes By Stanley Tucci

I'm not saying they won't be bigger projects someday.

And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

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.

You gotta make the movie you want to make.

So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.

I make time to write.

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.

I would rather just do the things I want to do.

I like to see how I can do it for less money.

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.

I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.

I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.

I was always attracted to the past as a kid.

I never go overbudget on my 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.

I was dissatisfied just being an actor.

People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.

I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.

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.

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.

I'm a control freak. Totally.

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've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.

Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.

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 like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.

Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.