Stanley Tucci quotes His role in 'The Feud' (1989) Born: 11/11/1960 Country: usa

• And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do. (Stanley Tucci) [love]
• 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) [director/film/take]
• 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) [director/watch/actors]
• Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote. (Stanley Tucci) [night]
• But I also want to produce. (Stanley Tucci)
• But I do want to talk about it because the policies of the Writers Guild are absolutely arcane. Vicious, I would say. They are so hateful of the idea of an auteur. They just hate it, for whatever reason. (Stanley Tucci) [writers]
• But I'd shot enough independent films as an actor, one as a director. I knew that you have to be very specific when you're shooting a period picture. (Stanley Tucci) [director]
• 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) [start]
• Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way. (Stanley Tucci) [film]
• Frank Nitti was in fact a very intelligent guy. It was a very interesting exercise to make these characters as human as possible. (Stanley Tucci) [exercise/human]
• 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) [change/change/day/day]
• I don't like to move the camera that much anyway. (Stanley Tucci)
• I feel the prevailing view of Italian-Americans in Hollywood is that we are gangsters. (Stanley Tucci)
• I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times. (Stanley Tucci) [role]
• I like to see how I can do it for less money. (Stanley Tucci) [money]
• I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that. (Stanley Tucci)
• I love acting. (Stanley Tucci) [love]
• I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging. (Stanley Tucci) [love]
• I make time to write. (Stanley Tucci) [time]
• I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting. (Stanley Tucci) [genius]
• I never go overbudget on my movies. (Stanley Tucci)
• I read a little about Nitti. They had sent me some stuff, I did some research and I knew a bit about him before, but there's not a tremendous amount about him. (Stanley Tucci) [amount]
• I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid. (Stanley Tucci)
• I read as much as I could on Frank Nitti. I had done some reading many years before. You owe it to your subject to know as much as possible about them. (Stanley Tucci) [reading]
• I was always attracted to the past as a kid. (Stanley Tucci) [past]
• I was dissatisfied just being an actor. (Stanley Tucci) [being]
• I would rather just do the things I want to do. (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) [time]
• I'm a control freak. Totally. (Stanley Tucci) [control]
• I write in the mornings. During my down time. (Stanley Tucci) [time]
• I'm not interested in wasting money on a project. (Stanley Tucci) [money]

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