In a recession, people want to be told for two hou... -Alison Owen

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.

Alison Owen , Producer
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Alison Owen is a British film producer known for her work on films such as "Elizabeth" and "Suffragette." She has collaborated with acclaimed directors and has produced a diverse range of films that have received critical acclaim and international recognition. Owen's contributions to the film industry have been widely recognized.

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People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They've got other fish t...
To say the Internet is the death of books and movies is like saying someone invented a new, more efficient kind of cup and it heralds the death of cof...
Movies began as a communal experience. Even though we now watch them as DVD's, sometimes alone on our computers, mostly in the history of cinema it ha...
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...
YouTube clips get millions, billions of hits. Reality TV programs have their own channels. How can movies attempt to compete with these kinds of numbe...
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, ...
People didn't suddenly wake up one morning and unanimously say 'I'm fed up with midbudget dramas. I'm only going to see action tent poles from now on!...
Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people still want good stories!...
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...
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...

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If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun....
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal....
Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident....
To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination....
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions....
Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been o...
No sanction can stand against ignited minds....
As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me....
Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities....
Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want....