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" I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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 never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I moved to the East Village in the late seventies, I wanted to be a street performer, so I practiced daily. I never did work up the skills or the courage to perform on the street, though. "

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

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

" Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends. "

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

" My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom. "

" It's not like I'm looking for things that I can direct that I can also act in, but when it's right, I feel like the actor side of me wants to have that opportunity. "

" Every day's an adventure when I step out of my door. That's why I usually wear a hat and keep my head low. "

" When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that, and feeling like I was losing control. "

" There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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