Alison Owen
Alison Owen
Alison Mary Owenis an English film producer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionProducer
Date of Birth18 February 1961
books directors expert good movies order work
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.
current favourite home office time
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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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?
It is really awful to be filming and not know if you can pay everybody.
filmmakers invite
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.
christmas holidays liberal pregnant punk rocker sarah
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.
english interested realised university
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.
became women
If you look back on professions, when they became undervalued and paid less, women tended to do better in them.
The Internet is a container, not a substance.
both night waitress
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.