Quotes By Stanley Tucci

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 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.

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.