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" I love working with Scorsese. He's not only a brilliant director and is great working with actors, but he's also a walking human film encyclopedia. It's fun to talk about movies with him. "

Steve Buscemi

Talk

Fun

Great

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" It doesn't matter to me what the genre is. "

Steve Buscemi

Genre

Matter

" I don't think it's necessary to be an actor to get great performances out of an actor. But I do think it helps me as a director because I know what I like as an actor, and I try to get that to the actors who I'm working with. "

" I read the script and decide if a particular character looks fun to play. I look for complexity and a sense of humor. Those are crucial, real things to life. "

" When I get cast, I always flip to the end of the script to see if my character gets beaten up or killed. "

Steve Buscemi

Cast

Always

" I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way. "

" The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor. "

Steve Buscemi

Actor

Responsibility

" With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system. "

" When I was doing stand-up, I was about twenty, and I really think that that's a little too young. I didn't have a whole lot of life experience to draw on. "

" Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece. "

" I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part. "

" It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent. "

" To me, it doesn't really matter how big the part is as long as the part is important to the story. "

Steve Buscemi

Matter

Story

" Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days. "

" I was really young, just playing with puppets a lot and doing all the voices and acting it out - normal kid stuff. But then I'd hear my mother talking about it to her relatives, marveling at it as if it was something unique. And it made me realize, 'Oh, maybe I do have a talent for something.' "

Steve Buscemi

Young

Doing

" 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. "

" My dad had a temper. I have a temper. Most people I know have a temper. And I think it comes out mostly with your family. I don't think it's unique to the Buscemis, but it's something I've been able to tap into when I play certain roles. "

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

" I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously. "

" It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good. "

" I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write. "

" In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The thrill of performing - that's something that hasn't changed for me. That simultaneous joy of creating something and sharing it with an audience - it's the same now as it was then, when it was just my cousins' birthday party. "

Steve Buscemi

Joy

Sharing

" To me, score is really important. I would rather not have any score if it's something that's going to detract from the film. So often when I watch films, the score is what really bothers me. "

" What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about pretending I was in outer space. It feels ridiculous. "

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

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

" Growing up, yeah, I had a magic kit with learn tricks and learn card tricks, but I was never... I used to watch whatever magic special was on as a kid, but then, it's not that I lost interest, but to be a magician, you really, it's really hard work. Learning lines is hard enough; learning sleight of hand, that's real practice. "

" I've always been interested in character-driven pieces, and my approach to directing is through acting. "