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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 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.
Steve Buscemi
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I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.
Steve Buscemi -
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.
Steve Buscemi -
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
Steve Buscemi -
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.
Steve Buscemi -
Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.
Steve Buscemi -
I don't think I'm that much different from any other working actor that's trying to make a living.
Steve Buscemi
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I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it.
Steve Buscemi -
I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.
Steve Buscemi -
I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously.
Steve Buscemi -
Really interesting things come because you don't know what the rules are, what you can and can't do.
Steve Buscemi -
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.
Steve Buscemi -
The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.
Steve Buscemi
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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.
Steve Buscemi -
I suppose things are better now, but ... I don't know. People still hate each other, they just know how to hide it better.
Steve Buscemi -
I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.
Steve Buscemi -
I hope I don't make it sound like it's this big to-do, but even putting on real cufflinks takes work.
Steve Buscemi -
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.
Steve Buscemi -
It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.
Steve Buscemi
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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.
Steve Buscemi -
Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.
Steve Buscemi -
I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
Steve Buscemi -
What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about pretending I was in outer space. It feels ridiculous.
Steve Buscemi