Stanley Tucci
Stanley Tucci
Stanley Tucci is an American actor, writer, producer and film director...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth11 November 1960
CityPeekskill, NY
CountryUnited States of America
bit jobs movies parts playing variety
I had already made, like, 25 movies, playing a variety of roles, and it was a very frustrating time, ... I really couldn't get a job, and the only jobs I could get were, like, you know, these bit parts playing mobsters.
character play people
Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.
running kids play
The action stuff takes a long time but when you're there and you're doing it and you go into that take and you run and everything is blowing up around you and you're diving onto something it's actually incredibly thrilling and you feel like a kid again. Like a kid, who used to play and pretend all those things would happen and now they're actually happening.
drama play want-something
Whatever the best scripts are and you just want to play roles that you can really sink your teeth into. That's always the goal no matter if it's a good guy or a bad guy, or a comedy, or a drama. It doesn't matter, you just want something that's substantial you can sink your teeth into and that you haven't done before, something that's really going to challenge you.
directed
I've directed a film set in the '50s.
directing
Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.
You gotta make the movie you want to make.
acting later studied
So I went to SUNY. at Purchase, studied acting at the conservatory. Did some plays, later TV. Nothing unusual.
When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.
elements history
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.
capable tremendous
He was capable of tremendous generosity, and of real cruelty,
I would rather just do the things I want to do.
I like to see how I can do it for less money.
money wasting
I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.