Colin Farrell Quotes

I like to shoot feature films because it's about capturing emotions... words like guilt, hurt, betrayal.

I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.

I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.

In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the form in cinema to dig deeper into human thoughts and emotions. And in a novel you can much more easily express a character's inner thoughts and feelings.

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.

The films that have influenced me most are: 'The Hustler', 'Badlands', 'Hud', 'Tender Mercies', 'Cool Hand Luke', 'A Perfect World', and 'Laurence of Arabia'. I also really like 'Fletch'. I feel like all of these films reached an honest place in regard to the human condition while also stringing together really entertaining stories.

One of the things I love about cinema is the range.

I really love the independent movies and I just think that sometimes when they throw a lot of money into it and a lot of special effects and a lot of stunts that you lose the connection, the human connection and I personally love movies that are about the human connection.

I remember reading the script for 'Dangerous Liaisons' and thinking that I could quite happily spend the rest of my life watching this film; the story and the writing were so wonderful.

I love that there's a beginning, middle and end to a film and you can craft what the whole journey is going to look like.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'

I love the kind of movies I watched when I was a kid. But, I also love telling great stories.

I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.

I love doing television; it's such a brilliant way to tell a story over six hours rather over the two hours of doing a movie.

I like comedies, I like thrillers, I like love stories. Everything is beautiful; it depends if the film is good, who cares? Everything is interesting.

I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift something and keep me thinking.

We all do that thing which is the best in movies - we relate.

You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences.

I actually love going to a lot of theater movies. I just love watching actors work and seeing how people tell stories.

It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it's very good for cinema.

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.

I like all films whether it's dark or light, love, hate, whatever it is, I enjoy it.

Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.