Gary Oldman Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.

  Gary Oldman

  Dad, School, Kids

• 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

  Hands, Directors, Film

  "Batman Begins". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.

  Gary Oldman

  Father, Heart, Swimming

• Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position.

  Gary Oldman

  Knowing, Finding Yourself, Trying

• 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

  Independent, Want, Becoming

• 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

  Movie, Magic, Actors

  "Actor Gary Oldman". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. December 14, 2011.

• 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.

  Gary Oldman

  Film, Obligation, Stills

  "Gary Oldman: 'My sister in EastEnders is more famous than me'" by Kate Goodacre, www.digitalspy.com. September 2, 2011.

• 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 Oldman

  Girl, Two, Years

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