Stanley Tucci Quotes
25 quotations by Stanley Tucci
You gotta make the movie you want to make. |
The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker. |
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. |
Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject. |
So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really. |
People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that. |
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. |
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've directed a film set in the '50s. |
I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost. |
I'm not interested in wasting money on a project. |
I write in the mornings. During my down time. |
I would rather just do the things I want to do. |
I was dissatisfied just being an actor. |
I make time to write. |
I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that. |
I hope that a younger generation will start to watch a movie like this and start to better understand a slower pace in a truly cinematic way. |
I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times. |
I don't like to move the camera that much anyway. |
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. |
Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way. |
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. |
But I'd shot enough independent films as an actor, one as a director. I knew that you have to be very specific when you're shooting a period picture. |
Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote. |
And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do. |