If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
However good a communicator a director is, unless they've been actors, it's just not the same as the shorthand you get with… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
It's whether they have a vision and whether they're able to communicate it. The best director is just someone who gets over-excited… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Doing a job, or even watching a film, can make a difference to your life, but I don't think it ever has… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Directors don't get to see other directors at work - they're the only one on the set. I've met directors who've asked… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
It's hard to get yourself into a position where someone will trust you to direct a film anyway, whatever sex you are.… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
A life of very, very serious, po-faced films would drive me nuts. I need - and I'm fortunate to have - a… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I think it helps to get a film made because people who put money in are nervous. They like to have something… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Some people come up to be directors by coming through the camera department and there's not a lot of women in the… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
To work effectively in a film, you have to repeat and work consistently. Basically, you shoot a big master then you do… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
If one lazily thinks of what a fashion designer might do if he's going to conquer cinema next, it would be taking… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I have a great deal of respect for the craft, I don't know how much respect it has for me. But it's… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
There's no point in it unless it's a story that you really want to tell. It's a nebulous job. Unless you're doing… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
My looks aren't something that come dazzlingly through in everything I do. I can be made to look one way or the other fairly… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing.… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
A life of very, very serious, po-faced films would drive me nuts. I need - and I'm fortunate to have - a fairly varied… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
“when im really into a movel i'm seeing the world differntly during that time- not just for the hour or so in the day… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
