Zitat des Tages von Stanley Tucci:
I was dissatisfied just being an actor.
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.
I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.
I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.
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.
Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.
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.
Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.
I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing 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.
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.
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 would rather just do the things I want 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.
The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.
I don't like to move the camera that much anyway.
And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.
I'm a control freak. Totally.
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 not interested in wasting money on a project.
I write in the mornings. During my down time.
People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.
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.
I'm not saying they won't be bigger projects someday.
I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging.
I like to see how I can do it for less money.
I never go overbudget on my movies.
I was always attracted to the past as a kid.
The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.
When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.
You gotta make the movie you want to make.
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.
I don't like not being busy.
I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.
I don't consider myself a mean person. I hope I'm not.