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

I'm a control freak. Totally.
Stanley Tucci

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

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

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

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

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.
Stanley Tucci

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.
Stanley Tucci

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.
Stanley Tucci

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

So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.
Stanley Tucci

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

The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.
Stanley Tucci

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

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

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

You gotta make the movie you want to make.
Stanley Tucci