My late wife - she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn't be in that room because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn't be able to take care of the kids after.

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Mom Men Car

I don't consider myself a mean person. I hope I'm not.

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Hope T Son

I'm not saying they won't be bigger projects someday.

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Yin Won T

People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.

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Wear Way Theater

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.

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Design Car You

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

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Money Wasting Tin

I'm a control freak. Totally.

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Totally Total Tall

I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.

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Time Which Us

I like to see how I can do it for less money.

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Money T See

I wanted to be an architect, an artist, or an actor.

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Art Wanted Want

I would love to have my hair back and to be two inches taller - I am 5 ft. 8 in.

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Love Would Two

My late wife - she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn't be in that room because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn't be able to take care of the kids after.

Stanley Tucci

Mom Men Car

The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.

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Very Thing Thin

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.

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Men History Art

I can remember the World's Fair in New York in 1964; I was three.

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York World Three

So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.

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Movies Hope Yes

I was always attracted to the past as a kid.

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Ways Way Ted

I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.

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Time Wit Wanted

My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.

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Movies Art Will

I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.

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Ways Way T

You gotta make the movie you want to make.

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You Want T

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

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 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

I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.

Stanley Tucci

I never go overbudget on my movies.

Stanley Tucci

I was dissatisfied just being an actor.

Stanley Tucci

I make time to write.

Stanley Tucci

I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.

Stanley Tucci

I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

Stanley Tucci

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 would rather just do the things I want to do.

Stanley Tucci

Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.

Stanley Tucci

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

Stanley Tucci

You don't want to watch people who are really awful. That's the goal whenever you're playing someone who's a little twisted. One of the important aspects of this is we just don't know who he is. Or who she is. And we find out along the way.

Stanley Tucci