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" 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. "

Clive Owen

Movies

Think

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" The worst piece of advice I've gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, 'Remember, it's all about likeability.' "

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" 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. "

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Whatever

I Am

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Family

Git

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