Quotes from Stanley Tucci

I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.

I'm a control freak. Totally.

If you find that thing you love, it doesn't necessarily matter whether you do it well or not-you just need to do it.

Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.

Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.

I can remember the World's Fair in New York in 1964; I was three.

I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging.

I'm not saying they won't be bigger projects someday.

If you feel safe then you can go wherever you want to go as an actor.

Sometimes you can't even find the director on a movie set. Sometimes you don't want to find the director on a movie set.

You don't want to watch people who are really awful. That's the goal whenever you're playing someone who's a little twisted. One of the important aspects of this is we just don't know who he is. Or who she is. And we find out along the way.

Ripe bananas are the mark of a good produce section. A good produce section is the mark of a superior grocery store. A superior grocery store is the mark of a good man.

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

It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story of who you are at the time, and that's the wonderful thingabout it.

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.

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

I wanted to be an architect, an artist, or an actor.

My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.

I was always attracted to the past as a kid.

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.

I like to see how I can do it for less money.