The industry has changed. Two years ago I could tell a company I’ve got Russell Crowe and that would get the film made. Now they’d ask ‘And who’s the girl?’ Just one famous face isn’t enough any more.
GARY OLDMANI like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
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How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
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I wasn’t ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
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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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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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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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At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for ’12 Years a Slave’ you were a racist.
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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.
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I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
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People 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.
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The thing a drama school can’t give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can’t be taught, and you have to have intuition. It’s an essential ingredient.
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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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On set I keep myself to myself; I’d rather the director speak up. I’m not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.
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You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you’ll be O.K.
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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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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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