Gary Oldman
Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.
Gary OldmanBut you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
Gary OldmanI got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
Gary OldmanI'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
Gary OldmanYour own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position.
Gary OldmanPeople imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.
Gary OldmanIt's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle.
Gary OldmanI never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.
Gary OldmanHow many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
Gary OldmanMy passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
Gary OldmanWell, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.
Gary OldmanI have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.
Gary OldmanShakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
Gary OldmanIt's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
Gary OldmanI applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy - that is a miracle in itself.
Gary OldmanI wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
Gary OldmanIf one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.
Gary OldmanMy big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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