Quotes from Stanley Tucci

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 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.

I don't like not being busy.

I don't like to move the camera that much anyway.

I think it's important to have a good sense of humor and joke around with your kids. That's what I do a lot.

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

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

I don't consider myself a mean person. I hope I'm not.

My late wife - she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn't be in that room because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn't be able to take care of the kids after.

I would love to have my hair back and to be two inches taller - I am 5 ft. 8 in.

The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.

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.

The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.

I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.

I was dissatisfied just being an actor.

A dream that you don't fight for can haunt you for the rest of your life.

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

I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.

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.

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

You gotta make the movie you want to make.

I write in the mornings. During my down time.

I hate movies that take a long time to shoot or directors that labor over every shot or do excessive amounts of coverage and excessive takes and don't keep things moving or constantly cutting.

The smaller films just take a longer period of time to build their fan base because people don't see them as soon as they come out in the theater. They see them, after a period of years.