But usually I’ll wake up and start writing about nine o’clock. I’ll probably write for about three hours, and I’ll do that over the next month and a half. – Stanley Tucci
I’d read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell’s stuff for a long time. – Stanley Tucci
Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk – and collect it. – Stanley Tucci
I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times. – Stanley Tucci
As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don’t get to do when I’m just acting. – Stanley Tucci
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. – Stanley Tucci
The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved – as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem – must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses. – Stanley Tucci
As a director you have to be careful you don’t over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over. – Stanley Tucci
I didn’t know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn’t believe it – we must change them 10 times a day – each. So that’s 20 diapers a piece a day. – Stanley Tucci
