Steve Buscemi Quotes
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I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it.
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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.
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It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.
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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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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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The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances.
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I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.
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Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.
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They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
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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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By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had.
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I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.
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I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.
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I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.
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I don't tend to think of the characters i play as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.
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I think distribution has become a lot harder. With the whole explosion of digital video, there's just a lot more people making films. Distributors have a lot more choice. I do think there's an audience out there for small films. It's obvious to me what the studios do: they've co-opted independent film. They all have their independent arm. They can afford to crush the competition.
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I had a magic kit. I never really followed through on it, but I had my phase of wanting to do it, sure.
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I guess I don't think about age too much. I've always felt older than I really am anyway. I'm not dreading getting older. I don't miss the anxiety of being younger and not knowing what you want or where you’re going.
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In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.
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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.
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It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.
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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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Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.
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There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.