And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.
Stanley Tucci

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.
Stanley Tucci

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

I make time to write.
Stanley Tucci

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

I never go overbudget on my movies.
Stanley Tucci

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

I was always attracted to the past as a kid.
Stanley Tucci

I was dissatisfied just being an actor.
Stanley Tucci

I would rather just do the things I want to do.
Stanley Tucci

I write in the mornings. During my down time.
Stanley Tucci