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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: 67
Born: 1957
Born: December 13
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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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By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had.
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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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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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Every day's an adventure when I step out of my door. That's why I usually wear a hat and keep my head low.
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Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.
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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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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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Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.That's why you hire them, so why tell somebody first what it is you want? I'm more curious to see what they bring to it and then be inspired by it and say: OK, what if you tried this? or What would happen if ... ?
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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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I have a dresser, who literally is a guy who makes sure the tie is right. It's a little bit of a process. I could probably do it by myself, but it would take me three times as long.
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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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I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.
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All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.
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My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.
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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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