Steve Buscemi Quotes
27 quotations by Steve Buscemi
![]() | With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system. | ![]() |
![]() | When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that, and feeling like I was losing control. | ![]() |
![]() | 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. | ![]() |
![]() | Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece. | ![]() |
![]() | They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping. | ![]() |
![]() | Quentin was so passionate and enthusiastic about what he was doing that it touched us all. We really wanted to do a good job for him. | ![]() |
![]() | On big films there is a lot of pressure on the director, because they have so much money. The way I approach it as an actor is pretty much the same. | ![]() |
![]() | My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre. | ![]() |
![]() | My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom. | ![]() |
![]() | My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig. | ![]() |
![]() | My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. | ![]() |
![]() | It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting. | ![]() |
![]() | It doesn't matter to me what the genre is. | ![]() |
![]() | 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. | ![]() |
![]() | I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue. | ![]() |
![]() | I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years. | ![]() |
![]() | I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing. | ![]() |
![]() | I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once. | ![]() |
![]() | 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. | ![]() |
![]() | I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires. | ![]() |
![]() | I don't tend to think of these characters 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. | ![]() |
![]() | I don't really consider myself a writer. Trees Lounge was really hard for me to write. Right know it's more important to keep directing. | ![]() |
![]() | I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. | ![]() |
![]() | Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days. | ![]() |
![]() | 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. | ![]() |
![]() | Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters. | ![]() |
![]() | All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film. | ![]() |