Quote: And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do. [Stanley Tucci]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote. [Stanley Tucci]
Quote: But I also want to produce. [Stanley Tucci]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way. [Stanley Tucci]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: I don't like to move the camera that much anyway. [Stanley Tucci]
Quote: I feel the prevailing view of Italian-Americans in Hollywood is that we are gangsters. [Stanley Tucci]
Quote: I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times. [Stanley Tucci]
Quote: I like to see how I can do it for less money. [Stanley Tucci]
Quote: I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that. [Stanley Tucci]
Quote: I love acting. [Stanley Tucci]
Quote: I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging. [Stanley Tucci]
Quote: I make time to write. [Stanley Tucci]
Quote: I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting. [Stanley Tucci]
Quote: I never go overbudget on my movies. [Stanley Tucci]
Quote: 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]
Quote: I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid. [Stanley Tucci]
Quote: 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]
Quote: I was always attracted to the past as a kid. [Stanley Tucci]