Clive Owen

I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.

When you are shooting action, there is a satisfying thing because your objectives are very clear.

There's not a big gun culture in England at all still.

I'd like to do a film which is funny.

I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.

I would never give anybody any advice about anything.

I'm the git in the family.

I am comfortable around babies and children because I have two of my own.

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

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.

The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.

If you explode onto the scene at a very young age, there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what's important.