Joseph Peter Pantoliano (born September 12, 1951) is an American character actor who often plays shady characters, frequently criminals or corrupt individuals.
Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration.
The Moguls is a story about guys that have all grown up together and are now in their late 40s, early 50s.
Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.
What the hell did I do in the 80's? Midnight Run. A perfect movie. Just a perfect movie.
When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years.
When I interview somebody, I look at their resume to see what they've done, who they've worked with, and how many times. If they've gotten repeat work. Those are the kinds of actors I want to hire.
It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love.
Bad Boys II has knocked everyone's socks off.
I think we're going to see the day where commercialized television will not exist anymore, it's going to be vertically integrated.
I've been so good in so many movies that nobody saw.
When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.
I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions.
That's another reason I did Daredevil: I didn't get killed off in it.
I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again.
Let's face it, 80 percent of the work I do my kids can't see.
There aren't any small parts, only small paychecks.
I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.
I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.
In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.
I don't like directors that just say, Stand there and now do this.