Steve Buscemi Quotes - Page 3

Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.

Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.

Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.

All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.

Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.That's why you hire them, so why tell somebody first what it is you want? I'm more curious to see what they bring to it and then be inspired by it and say: "OK, what if you tried this?" or "What would happen if ... ?"

I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it turned out that once I started acting that I started getting a certain kind of role, that I never saw myself as growing up, so I really love when I get an opportunity to play a [comedian] role.

I had a magic kit. I never really followed through on it, but I had my phase of wanting to do it, sure.

I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it.

It doesn't matter to me what the genre is.

The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances.

The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is.

I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.

When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that and feeling like I was losing control.

My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.

Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.

I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.

I don't blame any director for wanting to do something more commercial. That's all part of the business. I certainly have done it, as an actor.

I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.

Nothing's really changed for me over the years. I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.

I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up.

I always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor.

Whenever you do something that is in a continuous take, and something that we're not used to doing, because it was all in the details of if you don't make one move seem natural it can give away all of it.

I have a dresser, who literally is a guy who makes sure the tie is right. It's a little bit of a process. I could probably do it by myself, but it would take me three times as long.