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.
GARY OLDMANWhat other people think of me is none of my business.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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People who know me , they know I have a sense of humor, I’m a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.
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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 like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman’s lunch.
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You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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There are roles that you chase sometimes.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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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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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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If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would’ve liked to have been John Lennon.
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Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
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Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.
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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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I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have 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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