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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Steve Buscemi

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Crazy

Time

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing. "

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

" 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

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

" 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. "

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

" I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. "

Steve Buscemi

Training

Never

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

Steve Buscemi

Doing

Really

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

" 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

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

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

" I don't tend to think of these characters as losers. 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. "