Stanley Tucci - biography

Biography

Stanley Tucci is best-known for the following films:

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 like to use all of myself, and acting wasn’t doing that.”

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

“I was dissatisfied just being an actor.”

“I’ve always considered myself an actor first and foremost.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I never go overbudget on my movies.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You gotta make the movie you want to make.”

“I mean, Scorsese’s a genius, and that’s one way of shooting.”

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

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

“I love directing - it’s always so involving, so challenging.”

“I like to see how I can do it for less money.”

“I’m not interested in wasting money on a project.”

“I make time to write.”

“I write in the mornings. During my down time.”

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

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

“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 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 was always attracted to the past as a kid.”

“I would rather just do the things I want to do.”

“I’m a control freak. Totally.”

“I’m actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.”

“I’m not saying they won’t be bigger projects someday.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The thing is, I’m a very practical filmmaker.”

“When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.”

Filmography

The Actor