#or

How 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 Oldman

#director #film #fingers #hand #how

I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#about #alcoholic #anger #anymore #beating

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. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#collector #faces #fetch #guitar #had

I had what AA calls 'a convincer' - which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#any #calls #done #drinking #end

I 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 Oldman

#books #buses #everywhere #harry #harry potter

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 Oldman

#celluloid #film #gate #i #like

Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#been #characters #emotions #express #frenetic

It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#anything #bit #california #city #demolished

Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world! ↗

— David Hockney

#gift #greatest #greatest gift #tobacco #world

It'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 Oldman

#angle #any #anymore #becoming #budget