Steve Buscemi
Steve Buscemi
Steven Vincent "Steve" Buscemiis an American actor and film director. Buscemi has starred and supported in successful Hollywood and indie films, including Parting Glances, New York Stories, Mystery Train, Reservoir Dogs, Desperado, Con Air, Armageddon, The Grey Zone, Ghost World, Big Fish, and The Sopranos. He is also known for his appearances in many films by the Coen brothers: Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, and The Big Lebowski. Buscemi provides the voice of Randall Boggs in the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth13 December 1957
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Oftentimes you'll see stuff that makes it into the mainstream that has been influenced by things that are clearly not from the mainstream.
Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.
All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.
I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.
Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.
I always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor.
I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up.
I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.
The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.
I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did theater, I used to have a partner, and that was the way we used to write a lot of our sketches, through improvisation. So it's something I feel comfortable with.
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.
The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances.
It doesn't matter to me what the genre is.