Quotes from Clive Owen

I'm the git in the family.

My wife needs her freedom just like me.

The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made, there's no question.

I go off and make movies I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.

For me, London is and always will be home.

I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.

A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.

Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.

I'd like to do a film which is funny.

Obviously, I'm attracted to heavier movies.

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.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

I've had some great times with actresses, but that's in a movie.

I would never give anybody any advice about anything.

I'm not better than anyone else.

I don't play video games.

I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

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.

Death frees the beast.

For me, London is and always will be home.

Without faith, without belief in something, what are we?

I'm the git in the family.

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.