I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.
From Stanley Tucci
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.
I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.
I was dissatisfied just being an actor.
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.
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.
I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.
Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.
I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.
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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