Quotes By Stanley Tucci

I was always attracted to the past as a kid.

I never go overbudget on my movies.

I was dissatisfied just being an actor.

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.

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.

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.

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'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.

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.

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.