Colin Firth Quotes

The one thing I want to do - and I am doing - is starting my own production company, for me to produce and direct in the future. Have a bit more say and control - become the storyteller more than just the character. I want to choose the story, plant the seed, and watch it grow. I just want to have a bit more involvement.

Being producer you're still going to have to sell somebody who's going to give you the money on the idea and everything like that. But it does give you a little bit more control if you're thinking in that creative process; it gives you more control to tell the story you want to tell rather than sort of just reading a script that somebody else wrote and says, "Yes, please, you can hire me for this job." So it's a little bit more hands-on, a little bit more closer to the heart.

I have a notebook, and I know what decisions will be made in pre-production. Everything is pre-determined in the pre-production period. I visually design the whole thing, and I know when things will happen.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

I never write with an actor in mind - never.

I'd like to direct some, act in some of them, and produce.

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.

Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.

I love doing features, but it's a very different ballgame. Sometimes I yearn for short films again, working with a small team, getting my hands on the clay.

I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act.

With indies, all they have is their script and it's very important to them. The characters are better drawn, the stories more precise and the experience greater than with studio films where sometimes they fill in the script as they're shooting.

Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould.

I want to make my own movie.

I have to say that whatever decisions I make, I really do think that movie making is a director's medium. They are the people that ultimately shape the film, and a director can take great material and turn it into garbage if they are not capable of making a good movie.

I eventually want to write and direct and produce my own stuff.

I always say that I'm a filmmaker, not a factory. I don't have to churn out films every six months.

When you're a filmmaker or a scriptwriter, you face a lot of challenges while making a film. And when you produce it, you have to put in an extra effort.

Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody.

At some point, I would like to start creating my own things. If people don't write the scripts I like, then I will do my own.

It is difficult to make movies on your own terms and also to make a film and convince somebody to have faith in it.