Stanley Tucci

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

“I was always attracted to the past as a kid.”

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

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

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

“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'm a control freak. Totally.”

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

“I make time to write.”

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

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

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

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

“I was dissatisfied just being an actor.”

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

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

“You gotta make the movie you want to make.”

“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.”