Quotes by Steve Buscemi

Steve Buscemi

All the roles I play, I don’t see any of my roles in films that they’re typically leading men.

Men

Play

Roles

Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.

Character

Starting Over

Writing

Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.

Attitude

Bob

Serious

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.

Interviews

Thinking

Way

Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.

Casting

Character

Persons

Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.That’s why you hire them, so why tell somebody first what it is you want? I’m more curious to see what they bring to it and then be inspired by it and say: “OK, what if you tried this?” or “What would happen if … ?”

Character

Want

What If

Character actors just pile up the credits because you work on a movie for like a few days. It’s not like I’m the lead in everything I do – far from it. I’m not spending three or four months on a picture; I’m spending three or four weeks. Sometimes three or four days.

Character

Credit

Three

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.

Actors

Communication

Keys

Directing television is really hard – it’s so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.

Hours

Seven Days

Television

Do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he’s created here on earth?

Earth

Heaven

Thinking

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Acting

Actors

Adventure

Alex

Anxiety

Art

Atheist

Attitude

Bail

Believe

Bigs

Bob

Brother

Burgers

Canada

Care

Careers

Casting

Casts

Character

Cities

Comedian

Communication

Crazy

Credit

Crush

Dentist

Details

Different

Directors

Done

Doors

Earth

Elements

Ends

Escaping

Eye

Father

Figure Skating

Film

Fire

Firsts

Fun

Genre

Genre Is

Giving

Glances

Growing Up

Guy

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Quotes by Steve Buscemi

Steve Buscemi

All the roles I play, I don’t see any of my roles in films that they’re typically leading men.

Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.

Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.

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.

Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.

Character actors just pile up the credits because you work on a movie for like a few days. It’s not like I’m the lead in everything I do – far from it. I’m not spending three or four months on a picture; I’m spending three or four weeks. Sometimes three or four 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.

Directing television is really hard – it’s so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.

Do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he’s created here on earth?

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