Famous quotes by Steve Buscemi:
"My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail."
"When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting. Before going into a fire, there's the same surge of adrenaline you get just before the camera rolls."
"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."
"creativity and independent vision."
"They're not thinking of how it's going to please a mass audience, ... They're really writing it for themselves, and trusting there's an audience out there for what they have to say. Whenever you make a film, there's always compromises you have to make just to get it made, but you really have to ask yourself, 'How much am I willing to compromise to get it up on screen?' and at what point do the compromises mean that you're not really making the movie you wanted to make."
"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."
"It's weird; I was not a really tough guy in high school, but I end up playing all of these psychopaths and criminals. I don't really care who they are, as long as they are complicated and going through something that I can understand and put across."
"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."
"They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping."
"I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years."
"The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is."
"It doesn't matter to me what the genre is."
"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."
"Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters."