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" I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York. "

Steve Buscemi

New

New York

Character

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People

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Loved

Him

" It's great working with Steve Carell and Jim Carrey. Those guys are really funny. "

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" My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig. "

Steve Buscemi

Know

Review

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

" I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years. "

" 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. "

" I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path. "

" I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. "

Steve Buscemi

Doing

Really

" I think it's important to create an atmosphere where actors feel like they can try things out. It doesn't mean that I'll take every suggestion, but I want there to be some room for actors to grow. "

" I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted. "

" I'm always looking for other interesting films to either act in or direct. "

" 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. "

" I never know what I'm going to get. A 'Sopranos' fan is very different from a 'Big Lebowski' fan. "

" 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. "

" I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it. "

" 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. "

" The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is. "

" All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film. "

" I'd say that the director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell in 'In the Soup'. It was one of my earliest leading roles, and he gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor. "

Steve Buscemi

Soup

Responsibility

" 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. "

" The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances. "

" I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin. "

" 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. "