I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
GARY OLDMANI was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they’re older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.
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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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As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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I’m still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent – you get contaminated after so long.
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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 had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles’ faces on it. It would be a collector’s item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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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.
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Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.
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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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Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
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I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There’s that period in the late ’90s, the early 2000s, where I didn’t do a great deal.
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Well, 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.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman’s lunch.
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