Stanley Tucci

I was always attracted to the past as a kid.

You don't want to watch people who are really awful. That's the goal whenever you're playing someone who's a little twisted. One of the important aspects of this is we just don't know who he is. Or who she is. And we find out along the way.

My late wife - she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn't be in that room because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn't be able to take care of the kids after.

I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.

I like to see how I can do it for less money.

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

I don't like not being busy.

I wanted to be an architect, an artist, or an actor.

I can remember the World's Fair in New York in 1964; I was three.

I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.

I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.

The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.