Colin Firth Quotes

I literally said it was my dream in life to direct a Charlie Kaufman movie.

I would love to start directing. I just hope to find the right thing and, if I was afforded the opportunity, I think it would be something great. It would be really hard, but I think it would be a great privilege.

When Cate Blanchett starts directing, it's over for all of us.

I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

As far as getting my start, it was really Norman Lear, even aside from being on 'All in the Family.' He helped me get my start as a director. He was the one who said, 'Let him do 'Spinal Tap.' Let him give it a try,' because I had been trying for years to get that thing off the ground.

I'm just beginning to direct. For all intents and purposes, this is the first time for me.

It was never in the plan for me to direct 'Episode IX,' so I don't know what's going to happen with it.

If we do want to bring a woman in to direct a 'Star Wars'... we don't want to talk somebody into it.

I started doing documentaries in the first place because of the war. I always wanted to do feature films, and I studied directing when the war started, so I was working with actors before, in film and in theater. So I think it's easy to work with actors when you have a script that is clear, when they know what and why they are doing it.

Maybe at 55, I would like to direct. I will go the Angelina Jolie way.

What I really plan to do is take the best scripts I get and consider them seriously. I can actually work as an actor and prepare a film as a director.

I've never been given an opportunity to direct, but man, I would love to try my hand at that.

I wonder if Louis Ferreira would be interested in directing.

My criteria is always, 'Would I go see this movie? Is this character something I've never done? Who is the director? Do they inspire me?'

When I directed the third 'Insidious' film I loved it so much that I decided this is what I want to do from now on. I don't even think I would write something as a screenplay now with no intention of directing it.

I'm always under the impression that directors should act at some point or another.

I was always going to direct. I wasn't going to hand my characters over to anyone else.

'Zakhm' was my last film as a director.

I went to film school to direct.

I think it seems like a natural progression to go into directing, and I hope to explore more of it, because it's very exciting and a really good way to collide all the things that you've known and experienced in the business and put them all into one.

Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about "technique." And I say the hell with that.

I kind of don't believe in actors directing themselves. Obviously some people have done it well, but I don't see how I could. It's funny that you ask, because I've just been thinking that maybe I'd rather direct The Bell Jar than act in it. It's a huge leap to go from a short to a feature, so I'm tentative - I'm like, Well, that's just so triple-type-A personality of you.

I have a new respect for filmmakers, that's for sure, 'cause it's not easy. If I'm allowed to, I'll be directing for the rest of my life. I love the process.

I don't know necessarily that I would produce under my own company right now. Producing is not something that I'm thinking about. Directing is something that I will be doing very shortly, trying to figure out what to get my hands on. And I can't imagine writing a script and wanting to direct it and not having a producing credit, because I would want to have a big chunk of power on that end, if I wrote something.

Campbell [Scott] also directed me in a film with Hope Davis called Final. That was the first thing we did together, but I've known him for years.