Clive Owen Quotes (19 Quotes)

Oh no, we definitely weren't there together. In fact, much as I would have liked to, I didn't even get to meet the guy. But I do understand that he was there at the show.

I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.

I had a great time there. It's a very lovely, cultural place. Great restaurants, great places to go. People were really lovely.

Frank Miller was worried it would be tempered down it wouldn't be quite what he originally intended. Robert Rodriguez went to him and said, 'I'm going to be incredibly faithful to your original material,' shot a five-minute test. Frank said, 'I'm in. Let's do it.'

I think it's the most successful bedding in of computer technology and people I've ever seen in a movie.

I don't think you necessarily identify and believe in the motifs of the character, but you have to want to play it and want to commit to the lines.

A terrible thing happens and it's a nightmare that begins and just seems to spiral out of control.

often attracted to people with conflicts or flawed people because they're more interesting. There's something very attractive about playing an ordinary guy trying to cope with extraordinary things. He's a flawed human being struggling.

One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.

They are not bad people trying to cheat on their spouses, but they are drawn together and they are flawed.

The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.

I love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things.

I think it could definitely be disturbing. It's taken the central theme and it's definitely the same story, but the elements of the book have been changed quite a lot. It's still set 30 years in the future and the conceit is still the same, that no one has had a baby anywhere for eighteen years and our reluctant hero has ended up linked with the only pregnant girl on the planet. That's still the same, but Alfonso's done a really fascinating, unusual exploration of where things could be going, and that's still very, very strong in the movie. It's a very unusual take. People are assuming it's a sci-fi movie but it's almost the opposite of that. It's like now, but worse. It's the environment we're living in. It's not futuristic. It's like things have not ended up that great and we're in a world where there are no children, which is a pretty bleak place. Half the movie's a chase movie, really, but it's in a really extraordinary vision of the future.

I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human.

He's a very inspired choice for a movie like this because he's very specific and precise and he's very psychologically clear. And for a movie like this, which you could do very bombastically -- a big, crash-bang-wallop thriller -- you knew that he would pitch it so that everything would be very objective and clear.

Nothing worth discussing You were so close.

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.