'Dark Knight': Q&A with Gary Oldman
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
HW: How personally did that story affect you, as a father?
GO: It’s not very hard to play. Not like you are playing against type or anything. That whole thing…with the boy…you project your own family into the situations.
HW: How do you help your own children?
GO: It depends what it is. I find myself becoming more square, as I get older. It’s weird but I find myself saying things my parents said.
HW: Like what?
GO: I always say that a lazy man works twice as hard. So you have to take your time and do it right the first time. Let it take the time it takes, put in the time and effort, otherwise you’ll end up doing it again. I always say, “hate me now, love me later.” You’re civilizing them. You have this feral thing, that is all about them, and if you don’t civilize them, then they’ll come to you when they’re all messed up at 22 and say, “Where the fuck were you?” You just become more and more old-fashion. I sound like I’m not hip. “Clean up. Do that. Don’t argue. Take your plate in.” Or you pass the bathroom, and with my little 8-year-old it’s “Lift the seat! How many more times do I have to tell you? Lift the seat!”