Latest Steve Buscemi Quotes from Interviews

Quotes about:

• I feel my life has more meaning because I am responsible for another life, although I don't have control over what Lucian - my son - is going to do. He's definitely going to carve his own way.

  Steve Buscemi

  Son, My Son, Responsible

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think distribution has become a lot harder. With the whole explosion of digital video, there's just a lot more people making films. Distributors have a lot more choice. I do think there's an audience out there for small films. It's obvious to me what the studios do: they've co-opted independent film. They all have their independent arm. They can afford to crush the competition.

  Steve Buscemi

  Crush, Independent, Thinking

  "Steve Buscemi talks 'Sopranos,' 'Interview'". The Associated Press Interview, www.nbcnews.com. August 4, 2010.

• 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 ... ?"

  Steve Buscemi

  Character, What If, Want

  "Buscemi Remakes Film of Slain Filmmaker". Interview with Jake Coyle, www.washingtonpost.com. July 12, 2007.

• I don't blame any director for wanting to do something more commercial. That's all part of the business. I certainly have done it, as an actor.

  Steve Buscemi

  Directors, Actors, Done

  "Steve Buscemi Interview BOARDWALK EMPIRE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 9, 2010.

• I've never had a grand plan. I've only just tried to keep open to many different possibilities, have fun and work with people who are passionate about what they do.

  Steve Buscemi

  Fun, People, Passionate

  "Steve Buscemi Interview BOARDWALK EMPIRE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 9, 2010.

• It's always fun to get to do independent film because I believe that that's the life blood of film. It's about writers and directors who truly have their own vision, and that's hard.

  Steve Buscemi

  Fun, Believe, Independent

  "Steve Buscemi Interview BOARDWALK EMPIRE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 9, 2010.

• I have a dresser, who literally is a guy who makes sure the tie is right. It's a little bit of a process. I could probably do it by myself, but it would take me three times as long.

  Steve Buscemi

  Ties, Long, Guy

  "Steve Buscemi Interview BOARDWALK EMPIRE". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. September 9, 2010.

• I hope I don't make it sound like it's this big to-do, but even putting on real cufflinks takes work.

  Steve Buscemi

  Real, Sound, Bigs

  "Steve Buscemi Interview BOARDWALK EMPIRE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 9, 2010.

• Usually, I only get to work a few weeks on a movie, or I often don't make it to the end of the movie because I'm disposed of.

  Steve Buscemi

  Week, Ends

  "Steve Buscemi Interview BOARDWALK EMPIRE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 9, 2010.

• I guess I don't think about age too much. I've always felt older than I really am anyway. I'm not dreading getting older. I don't miss the anxiety of being younger and not knowing what you want or where you’re going.

  Steve Buscemi

  Thinking, Anxiety, Missing

  "10 Minutes with Steve Buscemi". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. July 18, 2007.

• Nothing's really changed for me over the years. I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.

  Steve Buscemi

  Brother, Father, Son

  "10 Minutes with Steve Buscemi". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. July 18, 2007.

• I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did theater, I used to have a partner, and that was the way we used to write a lot of our sketches, through improvisation. So it's something I feel comfortable with.

  Steve Buscemi

  Writing, Training, Actors

  "Steve Buscemi Talks Balancing Comedy and Drama, and His Experience with Improv On the Set of THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. February 27, 2013.

• Whenever you do something that is in a continuous take, and something that we're not used to doing, because it was all in the details of if you don't make one move seem natural it can give away all of it.

  Steve Buscemi

  Moving, Giving, Details

  "Steve Buscemi Talks BURT WONDERSTONE, BOARDWALK EMPIRE Season 4, MONSTERS UNIVERSITY, and His Work in Adam Sandler's Films". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. March 12, 2013.

• I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it turned out that once I started acting that I started getting a certain kind of role, that I never saw myself as growing up, so I really love when I get an opportunity to play a [comedian] role.

  Steve Buscemi

  Growing Up, Opportunity, Play

  "Steve Carell, Jim Carrey, Olivia Wilde, Steve Buscemi, John Francis Daley, and Jonathan Goldstein Talk THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. March 11, 2013.

• Oftentimes you'll see stuff that makes it into the mainstream that has been influenced by things that are clearly not from the mainstream.

  Steve Buscemi

  Stuff, Mainstream, Has Beens

  "BWW EXCLUSIVE: Steve Buscemi & Jo Andres on ISSUE Project Room". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. February 28, 2011.

• We both [with Jo Andres] think that it is really important to our culture that we support all kinds of music, all kinds of theatre and all kinds of art because you never know what moves people. We've always believed that there should be a strong voice outside the commercial world. Certainly, the commercial world has a huge place in our culture and we also support that - but, we also want to support the stuff that lives outside of that.

  Steve Buscemi

  Art, Strong, Moving

  "BWW EXCLUSIVE: Steve Buscemi & Jo Andres on ISSUE PROJECT ROOM". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. February 28, 2011.

• I don't think I'm that much different from any other working actor that's trying to make a living.

  Steve Buscemi

  Thinking, Trying, Different

  "Steve Buscemi talks 'Sopranos,' 'Interview'". www.today.com. July 11, 2007.

• 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.

  Steve Buscemi

  Character, Three, Credit

  "Buscemi Remakes Film of Slain Filmmaker". Interview with Jake Coyle, www.washingtonpost.com. July 12, 2007.