Steve Buscemi Quotes

I've worked with a lot of great directors.

Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.

I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing.

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

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.

Working with and collaborating with and for Peter Jackson was an incredible experience because he is such a phenomenal filmmaker.

I like to just work with great directors.

Obviously I'd love to work with any of these great directors because every time I've worked with them I've gained a tremendous amount as an actor. Each director has his own way of pushing you towards improving yourself.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

Every director's so different. Everybody has their own modus operandi and I love getting to know different directors in the way they work. David O. Russell is very exciting to be with because he's got a mind like quicksilver.

Just to get the basic fundamentals and empathy - I think that's the most important thing to bring to it if you've acted in the past and are now a director: the empathy.

I don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness.

I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me.

Obviously I would love to work with all these great directors like the Coen Brothers, Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez is a dream director of mine.

He was an amazing - John McTiernan really was an incredible director, probably the best I've worked with because he constantly busted me when he wasn't getting what he wanted.

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

You know as a director what you want, but the film is smarter than you, the film says no, the film says there's something more here.

Films are not mathematics - that's the first thing you need to understand. At least, that's how I feel. They are not words on paper. Films are made with people, with teams and with individual bundles of creativity coming together to fulfill the vision of an individual who is the director of the film.

I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.

Eventually, everyone said, Why don't you direct? It would save time. And that's how it started.

Tim Story is a fantastic director, and I'm so excited to get to work with him.

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.

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.

A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.