But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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.
I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy - that is a miracle in itself.
I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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.
I hadn't worked for a couple of years so I thought it would be nice to earn some money and pay the bills.
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.
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.
I wanted to tell this specific story more than I wanted to throw a camera around.
I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.
I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.
Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.
It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
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.
My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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.
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.
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.
Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.
Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
The film follows very much in the tradition of social realism, because I wanted to see a subject like this tackled with honesty.
To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.
To be honest, I'm a little tired of playing bad guys. I long to do a comedy. But it was fun knocking Indiana Jones around.
Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.
What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.
When I directed, it was in a bubble, a creative bubble and I was very spoilt there. I'd like to do it again but it would have to be under my method.
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 dropped out of school at the age of sixteen. He then started working at a sports-equipment store.
Gary appeared in the TV commercial for Barclays Bank with Donald Sutherland.
Gary sang "You've Been Around" with David Bowie, a duet from The Sacred Squall of Now.
Gary appeared in the print ad for DKNY in 2000.
Gary appeared in the music video "Since I Don't Have You" by Guns n' Roses.
On August 8, 1991, Gary was arrested for drunk driving in L.A. and released on bail the next morning. His passenger in the car was his friend and fellow actor Kiefer Sutherland.
Henry & June (1990) is the only film in which Gary has been credited as "Maurice Escargot."
Gary has been dating model-actress Ailsa Marshall since 2002.
Gary dated Isabella Rossellini, whom he met while filming Immortal Beloved (1994).
In 1988, Gary received a Best Actor nomination from the British Academy of Film and TV Arts for his portrayal of 60s play-wright 'Joe Orton' .
Gary studied with the Greenwich Young People's Theatre and went on to appear in a number of plays throughout the early 80s.
Gary is approximately 5' 10" (1.78 m) tall.
Gary is the brother of Laila Morse.
Gary was awarded the 1985 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Actor for his performance in The Pope's Wedding.
Gary also did a voice in the video game Medal of Honor: Allied assault-Spearhead as Sgt. Jack Barnes.
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