Tucci: "I'm a control freak. Totally."

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

Tucci: "But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half."

Tucci: "I never go overbudget on my movies."

Tucci: "So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really."

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

Tucci: "When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out."

Tucci: "Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject."

Tucci: "I was always attracted to the past as a kid."

Tucci: "As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over."

Tucci: "Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it."

Tucci: "I write in the mornings. During my down time."

Tucci: "As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting."

Tucci: "I don't like to move the camera that much anyway."

Tucci: "I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day."

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

Tucci: "I was dissatisfied just being an actor."

Tucci: "It's more interesting because you get to research the history of the period, and all the different aesthetic elements that make a film, particularly this film, so stunning."

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

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

Tucci: "You gotta make the movie you want to make."

Tucci: "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."

Tucci: "I don't consider myself a mean person. I hope I'm not."

Tucci: "I live in London, and I spend a lot of time in England and have a lot of British friends."

Tucci: "I'm not saying they won't be bigger projects someday."