Colin Farrell Quotes

In India, film sets are like a family atmosphere.

Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.

You never get fans hanging out on movie sets. It just never happens.

On a studio film, you don't have to worry about running out of film or messing up your costumes; you have five other sets of it. Studio films make you the most comfortable so you can just act.

I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

When you're working on a huge, elaborate set that took months to create, and you're surrounded by hundreds of extras, you better remember your lines and know what you're doing in a scene!

I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.

All the 'Hunger Games' stuff, we had a fantastic production designer, and he built amazing sets.

You don't really have to dress a ton of actors. You don't really have to spend a bunch of money lining up extras to look the time period.

I've been on lots of movies where we've done a lot of planning of sets - how much you build, and is this big enough, and will this get us what we need? - just with foam-core models.

Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do odd jobs on films like 'Labyrinth' and others... I seemed destined to make films.

My dad was in these pretty big films that were relevant to my age group. I remember him doing 'Richie Rich' when I was eight-years-old, and then 'Jumanji.' I remember going to these sets, and I loved being on film sets. I just found it fascinating watching how stories were made.

There was a time in the 1980s when I worked in 22 films a year.

I've met Shah Rukh a couple of times. He had even dropped by on the sets of 'Agent Vinod'.

You have to be a great storyteller. And you have to master the tools that you have to tell the story which are, inorder of importance, the script, the actors and then thetechnical means.

My philosophy is making a movie is difficult enough and I just feel as if you should have a really good time when you do make films whether it's a drama or a comedy.

It's like live action if you reshot every scene a million times after finishing the movie. Because even apparently by the very end, a few weeks before they were screening it for the world premiere, they were making changes. That's just simply something you can't do on live action.

Research can be interesting, but it can be pointless as well. The realities of making a movie often are not conducive with that. I'm not knocking it. I love doing research myself, but I admit it doesn't always add to the performance.

So many films end up being filmed in London or in the same places over and over again.

I do like working on television but I prefer film. I just want to work mainly but the pace on a movie is slower and you get to form more of a family. There is more time to work with whereas TV is faster paced.

Filming is like a long air journey: there's so much hanging around and boredom that they keep giving you food.

In the theater you rehearse in order to do the performance. And in the movies the rehearsal and the performance are kind of the same thing. You're figuring it out and hopefully the camera is pointed at you when you're doing it.

Kissing scenes are never romantic or sexy, they're actually super technical, like, "Move your head, you're blocking her light," or, "Stop looking like an idiot when you kiss her." You do it again and again because of the camera angles and takes and whatnot. So by the end of it, it's not even kissing. All the anything is totally drained out of it.

I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.