Stanley Tucci Quotes

"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."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: People)

"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."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Movies, Want, Will)

"People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: People, Law, Theater)

"So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Movies, People, Hope, Act, Living)

"Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Film)

"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."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Extreme, May, Project, Reality)

"I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Genius)

"The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker."
- Stanley Tucci

"I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Acting)

"You gotta make the movie you want to make."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Want)

"The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Actors, Majority, Talk)

"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."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Change, Day)

"And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Love, Projects)

"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."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Film)

"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."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Acting, Actors)

"Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Night)

"I make time to write."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Time)

"Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Film, Silly)

"I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Love)

"I don't like to move the camera that much anyway."
- Stanley Tucci

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

"I like to see how I can do it for less money."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Money)

"I never go overbudget on my movies."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: 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."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Writing)

"I'm not saying they won't be bigger projects someday."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Projects, Saying)

"I'm not interested in wasting money on a project."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Money, Project)

"I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Will)

"I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Actor, First)

"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."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: History, Film, Research)

"I'm a control freak. Totally."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Control)

"I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Time, Old)

"I write in the mornings. During my down time."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Time)

"I would rather just do the things I want to do."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Want)

"I was dissatisfied just being an actor."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Actor, Being)

"I was always attracted to the past as a kid."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Past)

"I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Actor)