Quotes by Alison Owen - Page 1

You won't see me doing 'Transformers 5.'
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Me Doing See
Transformers
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The Internet is a container, not a substance.
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Substance
Container
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Well, who wouldn't want to work with Tom Hanks?
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Work Who Want
Tom
Tom Hanks
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It is really awful to be filming and not know if you can pay everybody.
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Filming
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If you look back on professions, when they became undervalued and paid less, women tended to do better in them.
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Undervalued
Women Look Better
Professions
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Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people still want good stories!
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Constant
Human Nature
Death And Taxes
Good Stories
Stays
The One Thing
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I went to University College London and read English literature, then realised if you were interested in story and narrative, film was the way to go.
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English Literature
Narrative
Realised
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People didn't suddenly wake up one morning and unanimously say 'I'm fed up with midbudget dramas. I'm only going to see action tent poles from now on!'
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Fed Up
Wake Up
Dramas
Fed
One Morning
Poles
Tent
Unanimously
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The most interesting characters keep us hooked. Not likeable ones! Iago, Shylock, Darth Vader - are they likeable? Do you want to invite them to dinner?
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Dinner
Hooked
Interesting Characters
Likeable
Vader
Darth
Darth Vader
Invite
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The greatest filmmakers are not the ones who put everything in; they're the ones who can figure things to leave out, and in doing so, invite your participation.
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Participation
Filmmakers
Invite
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I am no expert on tax; I'm a film producer. I read books and think about which ones would make good movies, and then I work with directors in order to make them.
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Tax
Work Good Movies
Expert
Good Movies
Producer
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John Lee Hancock is someone that I had admired from afar. I think he is a wonderful director... in the tradition I would say both of Clint Eastwood and Frank Capra.
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Afar
Frank
Admired
Clint
Clint Eastwood
Eastwood
Lee
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When my parents met, my mother was a waitress and my father was a dockyard worker. They were part of that post-war better-yourself generation, so they both went to night school.
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Post War
Waitress
Worker
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Movies began as a communal experience. Even though we now watch them as DVD's, sometimes alone on our computers, mostly in the history of cinema it has been a communal experience.
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Computers
Cinema
Began
Communal
Mostly
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If I'm at home, I get up around 7:30. If I have time, I like to do some exercise. My current favourite is 'hot' yoga. If I'm filming, I will go to the office or set, and then take meetings.
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Favourite
Filming
Current
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When you want to transcribe an idea truthfully from the page to the screen, it is not necessarily best to be particularly literal about it. It can be hard to convince people, specifically writers, of that.
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Convince
Literal
Writers
Particularly
Necessarily
Page
Screen
Specifically
Truthfully
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With 'Suffragette,' I felt that a female writer would be good, and considering the subject matter, who would be better to write the script than Abi Morgan? She was the first choice, and she happens to be a woman.
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Considering
Subject Matter
Morgan
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Really, I am entirely material driven. If a project appeals to me, I will try to find the right writer and director. And that may be someone I've worked with before, or it may not. It may be a woman, or it may not.
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Appeals
Driven
I Am Me May
May Me I Am
Entirely
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In a recession, people want to be told for two hours that everything is going to be OK. They want to escape from their humdrum or painful reality into a feel-good drama, or a love story that transcends their daily life.
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Daily Life
Drama
Humdrum
Love Story
Painful
Life Love Reality
Life Love Daily
Daily
Escape
Recession
Transcends
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Movies alone have the hideous capacity to do everything for you. So in directing movies, you have to figure how to leave things out - because when you leave things out, you evoke the imaginative participation of the audience.
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Evoke
Hideous
Imaginative
Participation
Directing
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People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They've got other fish to fry. They'd rather see a few great dance routines and the guy end up with the girl.
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Angst
Blame
Existential
Fish
Eager
Fry
Routines
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I was a little punk rocker and was pregnant with Sarah when I went to university. I had her in the Christmas holidays of the first term. It was 1979, and UCL was very proud of its reputation as a liberal university, so they were very helpful.
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Christmas
Pregnant
Reputation
Term
First Term
Holidays
Liberal
Rocker
Sarah
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YouTube clips get millions, billions of hits. Reality TV programs have their own channels. How can movies attempt to compete with these kinds of numbers? And do we even need to? Are we scaring ourselves by unnecessary comparisons, by not comparing apples with apples?
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Apples
Billions
Numbers
Reality Tv
Unnecessary
Youtube
Attempt
Channels
Comparing
Programs
Scaring
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To say the Internet is the death of books and movies is like saying someone invented a new, more efficient kind of cup and it heralds the death of coffee - a new improved form of carrying something, which is essentially what the Internet is, should be helpful to our business.
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Coffee
Efficient
Carrying
Cup
Improved
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Audiences like to be made to feel that there is a world where things go right: where big emotions can happen and yet feel safe. This is why there is a constant tension in Hollywood between studios who want happy endings and writers who want to explore the human condition. There is a time and a place for both!
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Constant
Hollywood
Human Condition
Safe
Studios
Tension
Time World Feel
Condition
Audiences
Endings
Writers
Explore
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