Steve Buscemi quotes His role as Mr. Pink in 'Reservoir Dogs' Born: 12/13/1957

• My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. (Steve Buscemi) [junk/mail]
• When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting. Before going into a fire, there's the same surge of adrenaline you get just before the camera rolls. (Steve Buscemi)
• In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene. (Steve Buscemi) [question/film/being]
• Creativity and independent vision. (Steve Buscemi) [creativity]
• They're not thinking of how it's going to please a mass audience, ... They're really writing it for themselves, and trusting there's an audience out there for what they have to say. Whenever you make a film, there's always compromises you have to make just to get it made, but you really have to ask yourself, 'How much am I willing to compromise to get it up on screen?' and at what point do the compromises mean that you're not really making the movie you wanted to make. (Steve Buscemi) [thinking/film/compromise/point]
• “I don't tend to think of these characters as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.” (Steve Buscemi) [think/people/people/feeling]
• It's weird; I was not a really tough guy in high school, but I end up playing all of these psychopaths and criminals. I don't really care who they are, as long as they are complicated and going through something that I can understand and put across. (Steve Buscemi) [weird/high/school/start]
• All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. (Steve Buscemi)
• They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film. (Steve Buscemi)
• Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. (Steve Buscemi)
• I let the story write itself through the characters. (Steve Buscemi)
• Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude (Steve Buscemi)
• Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me. (Steve Buscemi)
• Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. (Steve Buscemi)
• I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors. (Steve Buscemi)
• Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days. (Steve Buscemi)
• I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin. (Steve Buscemi)
• I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. (Steve Buscemi)
• I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. (Steve Buscemi)
• That was for serious actors. (Steve Buscemi)
• I don't tend to think of these characters as losers. (Steve Buscemi)
• I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way. (Steve Buscemi)
• I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires. (Steve Buscemi)
• I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. (Steve Buscemi)
• I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York. (Steve Buscemi)
• I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. (Steve Buscemi)
• In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it. (Steve Buscemi)
• I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once. (Steve Buscemi)
• I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing. (Steve Buscemi)
• I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years. (Steve Buscemi)
• I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue. (Steve Buscemi)

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