Steve Buscemi
Steve Buscemi
Steven Vincent "Steve" Buscemiis an American actor and film director. Buscemi has starred and supported in successful Hollywood and indie films, including Parting Glances, New York Stories, Mystery Train, Reservoir Dogs, Desperado, Con Air, Armageddon, The Grey Zone, Ghost World, Big Fish, and The Sopranos. He is also known for his appearances in many films by the Coen brothers: Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, and The Big Lebowski. Buscemi provides the voice of Randall Boggs in the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth13 December 1957
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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?
I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.
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.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
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.
I never want to feel like the way that I see it isthe only way. Sometimes mistakes happen and that's better than whatyou thought the scene could be. You allow room for the possibilities.
I can't relate to 99% of humanity.
Usually, I only get to work a few weeks on a movie, or I often don't make it to the end of the movie because I'm disposed of.
It doesn't matter to me what the genre is.
I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.
When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that, and feeling like I was losing control.
The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is.
I've had dentists who have wanted to help me out, but I say, 'You know, I won't work again if you fix my teeth,'
When I get cast, I always flip to the end of the script to see if my character gets beaten up or killed.