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
It's great working with Steve Carell and Jim Carrey. Those guys are really funny.
I'm not so in a rush to direct just anything because I'm lucky that I can make a living so far as an actor and not have to worry about that as a director. And so I can be a little more choosy in things I direct.
To me, it doesn't really matter how big the part is as long as the part is important to the story.
Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.
Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.
I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up.
All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.
I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
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 was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.
I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.
I hope I don't make it sound like it's this big to-do, but even putting on real cufflinks takes work.
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.
We both [with Jo Andres] think that it is really important to our culture that we support all kinds of music, all kinds of theatre and all kinds of art because you never know what moves people. We've always believed that there should be a strong voice outside the commercial world. Certainly, the commercial world has a huge place in our culture and we also support that - but, we also want to support the stuff that lives outside of that.