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.