I make time to write.
Stanley Tucci
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
I don’t like not being busy.
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 would love to have my hair back and to be two inches taller – I am 5 ft. 8 in.
Stanley Tucci
I write in the mornings. During my down time.
Stanley Tucci
I was always attracted to the past as a kid.
Stanley Tucci
People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.
Stanley Tucci
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
I’d read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell’s stuff for a long time.
Stanley Tucci
I don’t like to move the camera that much anyway.
Stanley Tucci
I mean, Scorsese’s a genius, and that’s one way of shooting.
Stanley Tucci
Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.
Stanley Tucci
Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.
Stanley Tucci
I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.
Stanley Tucci
I was dissatisfied just being an actor.
Stanley Tucci
I’m a control freak. Totally.
Stanley Tucci
I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn’t doing that.
Stanley Tucci
The majority of directors I’ve worked with didn’t know how to talk to actors.
Stanley Tucci
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
You gotta make the movie you want to make.
Stanley Tucci
I would rather just do the things I want to do.
Stanley Tucci
The thing is, I’m a very practical filmmaker.
Stanley Tucci
I never go overbudget on my movies.
Stanley Tucci
I’m not interested in wasting money on a project.
Stanley Tucci
I like to see how I can do it for less money.
Stanley Tucci
And I love doing my own projects; that’s what I’ve always wanted to do.
Stanley Tucci
I’m not saying they won’t be bigger projects someday.
Stanley Tucci
I’ve always considered myself an actor first and foremost.
Stanley Tucci
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
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
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
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
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
Sometimes it’s difficult directing yourself on film because you can’t quite separate yourself from the subject.
Stanley Tucci
I’m actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.
Stanley Tucci
When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.
Stanley Tucci
I love directing – it’s always so involving, so challenging.
Stanley Tucci
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
I can remember the World’s Fair in New York in 1964; I was three.
Stanley Tucci
I wanted to be an architect, an artist, or an actor.
Stanley Tucci
My late wife – she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn’t be in that room because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn’t be able to take care of the kids after.
Stanley Tucci
You don’t want to watch people who are really awful. That’s the goal whenever you’re playing someone who’s a little twisted. One of the important aspects of this is we just don’t know who he is. Or who she is. And we find out along the way.
Stanley Tucci
I live in London, and I spend a lot of time in England and have a lot of British friends.
Stanley Tucci
I don’t consider myself a mean person. I hope I’m not.
Stanley Tucci