118 Quotes by Stanley Tucci

I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

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.

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.

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.

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 mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

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