I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That’s the magic of it to me.
GARY OLDMANI was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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I still don’t have a publicist. If I’m in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I’ll do as much as I can.
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I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
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To be able to do this job in the first place you’ve got to have a bit of an ego.
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I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.
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I don’t think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
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I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in ‘Batman 2’.
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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The script is your map of the world, isn’t it? And if someone knows that if it’s well-written, you get all of the beats, it will tell you everything you need to know.
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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I’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.
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The great thing about Google is that you type in neuro-surgery and somehow you end up with Peter Sellers or watching Frank Sinatra. Google is a great resource.
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You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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I think filmmaking should be a wonderfully free collaborative process, and it so very rarely is. I often see directors as jailers of my talent.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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