Quotes by Stanley Tucci

• When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.
• 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.
• 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.
• So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.
• Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.
• 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 mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.
• The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.
• I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.
• You gotta make the movie you want to make.
• The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.
• 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.
• And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.
• 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.
• 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.
• Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.
• I make time to write.
• Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.
• I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging.
• I don't like to move the camera that much anyway.
• I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.
• 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.
• I'm not saying they won't be bigger projects someday.
• I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.
• I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.
• I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.
• 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'm a control freak. Totally.
• I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.
• 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 was always attracted to the past as a kid.
• I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.