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 TucciWhat's great is when you're working with somebody with whom you have a connection, it's exciting because there's a shorthand and you trust each other and you have a good time together on the set and so you can go a little farther than you might normally because you're with somebody that you trust.
Stanley TucciI have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.
Stanley TucciThe 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