Clive Owen Quotes

Not only does Hollywood make money - it seems to make better movies during recessions. I'm sure a lot of studio executives wish we could have one every year.

Well, I haven't really been able to shoot in California for a while. Little movies yeah, but the big movies we can't shoot there. It's just a shame that Arnold Schwarzenegger can't deliver on this level.

That was Embassy Pictures, they went bankrupt shortly after This is Spinal Tap came out.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

Big feature films are another world.

Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.

The impact of the downturn is starting to feel very real. House prices and the housing market have been taking the knock for some time and that's affecting people.

It's rare to have even half-meaningful conversations in the film industry.

I see myself starring in and producing major feature films.

I think that this is the most significant financial crisis in the post-War period for the United States, and it has in fact a global reach.... I think it is extraordinarily important to understand that, as we have seen in many previous examples of different countries and different times, choking up of credit is like taking the lifeblood away from the economy.

I was the governor that drew a tough, tough straw. I was governor during the worst recession since the 1930s, and I had to cut $5 billion from the state budget.

New Mexico is the second Hollywood. No, it is, it is. They built all sorts of film studios.

With movies, it always feels like such a long shot getting it made.

There's no need to live in L.A. Half of Hollywood's films are shot in London, anyway.

Pittsburgh, for a while, became a production centre. There was one $400 million year. Hollywood was bringing productions in there. Films like 'The Silence of the Lambs' and 'Innocent Blood.' So my guys, the guys I worked with, were able to have careers and live at home. But then it dried up, and a lot of my friends left.

I was in Nashville quite a bit when I shot 'Nashville,' and I was in Los Angeles when I shot in 'Supergirl'.

I can't see the film industry coming to a grinding halt any time soon. I think we may be more open to negotiations and things like that, but I think the art world tends to thrive in times of recession.

Hollywood, for me, is the studios. It's a way to produce. It's a different way to make movies, and I never took part in that.

I think it is true that, post the global financial crisis initially - and for some period after that and particularly with how the mining investment boom and commodity prices played out - there was a dislocation that occurred in some of the more traditional mechanisms.

I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I've done. I've had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.

Hollywood is responsible for some of the greatest and worst movies of all time!

There's many more films being made in America than there are in Australia. You make four hundred and fifty films a year, we make twenty-five.

North America makes a ton of movies and there's a ton of movies that are exceptional.

Hollywood is tripping over its own feet.

We've been in a recession, by any common sense definition, because if you look at the American public, they've got 20 billion - 20 trillion, I should say, worth of residential homes.