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It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.
Clive Owen
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Clive Owen
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 3
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I can honestly say I've never chosen a film because where it's shot is convenient.
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I love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things.
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A lot of the projects that I do, I like to be involved with earlier. I just feel that, certainly from an acting point of view, it's easier to do my job, if I'm included in what the intentions are, for why people are doing what they're doing, especially with a director.
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Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.
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Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.
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No matter who the character is and how big their role, that each person in the story is a human being and deserves respect. Even if they're in the story for ten seconds, I didn't want you to just see them as this entity passing through that's serving all of the other people.
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Good dialogue is very important.
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I dread karaoke. I hate karaoke. I can't sing - that is why.
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I believe that we live in a time of fractured families where maybe fathers aren't getting enough time to see their kids because life's complications and hardships get in the way of those things.
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I do wear suits all the time.
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I'd like to do a film which is funny.
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I do a lot better if I sit around and think about a character for a couple of months.
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I have a problem with a lot of men's fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant.
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Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.
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The theater's a live thing, and film is, to some extent, a discipline where you're putting everything together and trying to execute something exactly. You do it away from people and then you present it at the end.
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If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're turning the story into a totally different thing the narrative of film is different from that of a book.
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I find sometimes that if you do too many takes, it starts to become meaningless to me. It is hard to sustain it for me. I don't want to do too many.
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One of the views of the [actor's] job is that whatever age you are, there's a role that's about who you are and where you are. There are parts for that age that you can bring things to.
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Movies are certainly a director's medium, so getting the opportunity to work with really good directors is everything to me.
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