Stanley Tucci Quotes

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

I'm a control freak. Totally.

A dream that you don't fight for can haunt you for the rest of your life.

Ripe bananas are the mark of a good produce section. A good produce section is the mark of a superior grocery store. A superior grocery store is the mark of a good man.

The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.

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.

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.

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.

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

I don't like to move the camera that much anyway.

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

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 have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.

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.

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

I write in the mornings. During my down time.

Sometimes we all make relationships more complicated than they necessarily have to be.

I'm pretty much a character-driven film director and my movies are smaller. I don't do a lot of coverage. I use lots of master shots.

It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story of who you are at the time, and that's the wonderful thingabout it.

As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.

If you find that thing you love, it doesn't necessarily matter whether you do it well or not-you just need to do it.

I hate movies that take a long time to shoot or directors that labor over every shot or do excessive amounts of coverage and excessive takes and don't keep things moving or constantly cutting.

I'm not saying they won't be bigger projects someday.

The smaller films just take a longer period of time to build their fan base because people don't see them as soon as they come out in the theater. They see them, after a period of years.

This is the funny thing about Skype. No one is really looking into the camera. People always looking down because they're looking at the image. You wish the camera was there in the center.

I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.

I never go overbudget on my movies.

Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.

I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.

Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.

Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.

You have to be serious about what you do but you mustn't take yourself seriously. That way you'll be happier and ultimately you'll be more successful. You'll be better at what you do.

Sometimes you can't even find the director on a movie set. Sometimes you don't want to find the director on a movie set.

I'm interested in how people shoot because I have a very specific way of shooting and I'm fascinated by the way other people shoot films, particularly if they're smart and talented.

I was always attracted to the past as a kid.

And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.

Every role is approached in exactly the same way, you have to make it believable and that's all. Acting is really serious, like, pretending really hard.

I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging.

I think it's important to have a good sense of humor and joke around with your kids. That's what I do a lot.

I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.

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

I've been playing the father of teenagers for years. People always thought that I was 40 when I was 26. Once you lose your hair, they're like "Oh! He's really old now."

I was dissatisfied just being an actor.

If you feel safe then you can go wherever you want to go as an actor.