Quotes By Stanley Tucci

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 would rather just do the things I want to do.

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

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.

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

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 was dissatisfied just being an actor.

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

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

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'm a control freak. Totally.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.