Colin Firth Quotes

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film.

What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential feature film which I didn't think would really happen, but at least I had it in case.

He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.

I've produced a couple of films and really enjoyed starting it from the very beginning and seeing it all the way through to the end; that was very gratifying.

With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.

'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.

The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and pages of scenes that will never make it onto the screen.

'An Education' was a complicated piece of work because it came from a tiny essay, so it took me a while to find the story I wanted to tell and the characters I wanted to tell it about. That really only emerged after four or five drafts.

It took me a good two-and-a-half to three years to write 'Dhobi Ghat' and more importantly be satisfied with it.

It took me a year just to edit 'Shotgun Stories.' Actually, it took me two years to edit 'Shotgun Stories.'

I love being a part of the whole journey of a film being made.

It's not often I get to do a film that turns out good. Plus, there just aren't that many great directors out there. There are a thousand different decisions that need to be made with each script and it's the good directors that can make those decisions. It's a long and complicated process in regards to what looks good on paper. Working on a bad film can be fun too. It can be a good exercise that gets you writing.

My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.

Certainly, for me, and it's gone this way on every project I've worked on, the "writing" never ends until you're done with the movie.

A lot of times, when I'm approaching pre-production and my job, and trying to research and work on the script and whatnot it's always different.

The first thing I put down on paper is a storyboard, like a film director.

What most people do is they make terrific films, one in three if you're very lucky, maybe one in five. So you just have to keep on, you have to get through the bad bits.

Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.

Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey.

I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.

The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.