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I suppose things are better now, but ... I don't know. People still hate each other, they just know how to hide it better.

Steve Buscemi

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Steve Buscemi
Age: 66
Born: 1957
Born: December 13
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Whenever you do something that is in a continuous take, and something that we're not used to doing, because it was all in the details of if you don't make one move seem natural it can give away all of it.
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Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.
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I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.
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I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.
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I always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor.
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I feel my life has more meaning because I am responsible for another life, although I don't have control over what Lucian - my son - is going to do. He's definitely going to carve his own way.
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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.
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Nothing's really changed for me over the years. I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.
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What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to p*ss off ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?
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Do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created here on earth?
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Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.
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I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.
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I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it.
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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.
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I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.
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I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.
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I don't blame any director for wanting to do something more commercial. That's all part of the business. I certainly have done it, as an actor.
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I don't think I'm that much different from any other working actor that's trying to make a living.
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The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is.
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The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.
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