Steve Buscemi Quotes
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I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years.
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Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.
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I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.
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My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.
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When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting.
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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 ... ?"
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I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.
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It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.
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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.
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Every day's an adventure when I step out of my door. That's why I usually wear a hat and keep my head low.
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The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances.
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I've had dentists who have wanted to help me out, but I say, 'You know, I won't work again if you fix my teeth.'
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Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.
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The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is.
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What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to p*ss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?
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I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up.
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Character actors just pile up the credits because you work on a movie for like a few days. It's not like I'm the lead in everything I do - far from it. I'm not spending three or four months on a picture; I'm spending three or four weeks. Sometimes three or four days.
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I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.
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I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.
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All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.
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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.
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Oftentimes you'll see stuff that makes it into the mainstream that has been influenced by things that are clearly not from the mainstream.
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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.
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I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York.