Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong. Colin Firth More Quotes by Colin Firth More Quotes From Colin Firth I love you even when you're sick and look disgusting. Colin Firth love-actually cheesy-love love-you I don't think it's aiming at gags, I think the humour is woven into it. It's part of how the characters operate and how they deal with disaster because they're worldly enough to have a bit of irony and wryness about their own circumstances. So, I think the humour comes out of that. Colin Firth woven character thinking I've actually heard people protesting furiously about straight male costume people as well. It's not universal and there are examples that break the mould all over the place. In my experience, it's more prevalent in the UK than in America. Colin Firth males america people Less racist now but it has been. I don't think it's been completely stamped out. There's a class element to it. And who's supposed to do what. You're very unlikely to get a gay grip. Colin Firth gay class thinking And that is a hard route for a woman to come through. There's still a lot of roles that have to be conformed to. It's quite an old fashioned environment in a lot of ways. Colin Firth environment roles way Some people come up to be directors by coming through the camera department and there's not a lot of women in the camera department. The ones that are have to kind of prove they're one of the boys, I think. I don't want to get into trouble with generalisations but I think it's a fair observation. Colin Firth boys people thinking 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 about doing it - they don't even have to know much about camera or acting. Colin Firth cameras vision acting I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse. Colin Firth neutrality faces looks I'd love to try my hand at something else. Colin Firth trying hands There's a paraphrase about Orson Welles saying: "Great films are made by great directors and the rest are made by everyone else." I've been very lucky... before I start insulting the profession of directing, but I think a good director is everything and a bad director really is nothing at all. Colin Firth insulting directors thinking But this is where you get all the market research and things get in danger of becoming formulaic, and where you depend on brands and getting recognised actors. It's the thing that precludes risk very often, otherwise everyone would be avant-garde all over the place. Colin Firth avant-garde risk would-be The fast fashion companies are like drug pushers : they go to these countries promising to lift millions out of poverty, they get the business, and then once they start production in that country they start pushing prices down, they can always impose the lowest wages and local governments and entire countries are enslaved by that. Say you are in Bangladesh, if you are too expensive they'll go to Vietnam or Myanmar, which they are doing. Colin Firth living We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place too often, and I think you've got to move beyond it, go the extra mile and have the courage not to just repeat the first one. Colin Firth place think you courage Something like 'A Single Man,' it was tiny; it was financed by one guy. We all lost money doing it. Colin Firth doing man single money If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there. Colin Firth think you freedom mind I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine. Colin Firth i-am think sound want If you play a role, you want to familiarize yourself with that person's world. If I were playing an airline pilot or a doctor, I'd probably want to hang out with a doctor or an airplane pilot for a while, ask some questions. You don't get to hang out the kings. They don't help consult on movies. So your resources are, by necessity, secondary. Colin Firth doctor yourself you world I can't imagine seeing Batman in black and white. It was such a colourful TV series. I know. I'm ancient. It wasn't abnormal to be without a television in those days. People who had colour were special. Colin Firth black-and-white black white people One of the things that makes you want to be an actor, speaking only for myself, is that there's something infantile about it. You're suspending disbelief, pretending and entering into a story world. Colin Firth story myself you world In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me. Colin Firth me confused class america
