Quotes By Stanley Tucci

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

I'm a control freak. Totally.

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

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.

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

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

I don't like to move the camera that much anyway.

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 write in the mornings. During my down time.

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.

I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging.

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

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.

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

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

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

I was always attracted to the past as a kid.