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The Internet is a container, not a substance.

~Alison Owen

Topics: Container Internet Substance

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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?

~Alison Owen

Topics: Apples Attempt Billions Channels Comparing Comparisons Compete Even Get Hits How Kinds Millions Movies Need Numbers Ourselves Own Programs Reality Reality Tv Tv Unnecessary Youtube

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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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Topics: Daily Daily Life Drama Escape Everything Going Hours Life Love Love Story Ok Painful People Reality Recession Story Transcends Two Want

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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.

~Alison Owen

Topics: Around Current Exercise Favourite Filming Get Go Home Hot Like Meetings Office Set Some Take Then Time Up Will Yoga

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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.

~Alison Owen

Topics: College English English Literature Film Go Interested Literature London Narrative Read Realised Story Then University Way Were You

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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.

~Alison Owen

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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.

~Alison Owen

Topics: Christmas First First Term Had Helpful Her Holidays Liberal Little Pregnant Proud Punk Reputation Rocker Sarah Term University Very Were

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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.

~Alison Owen

Topics: About Best Convince Hard Idea Literal Necessarily Page Particularly People Screen Specifically Truthfully Want Writers You

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It is really awful to be filming and not know if you can pay everybody.

~Alison Owen

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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.

~Alison Owen

Topics: Am Appeals Before Director Driven Entirely Find Material May Me Project Really Right Someone Try Will Woman Worked Writer I Am

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Producer

Born: February 18th, 1961

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