Colin Farrell Quotes

I'm not going to experience the reality of hardship that sometimes my characters live in. I'm very cautious about that.

If you do a fifteen hour day on a film, there's a lot of time standing around but at the end of that, you want to go home to your hotel room and have a bite to eat, watch a movie and go to bed.

If you need to get in physical shape for a film and you have to maintain that for six months, at the start of the film, I was never able to do it.

Initially, less appealing to me than the idea of a vampire that is drawn by some misgiving or drawn by some sense of longing that he can't quite satiate.

There was a part of me that felt afraid of people in Hollywood going: '**** Hollywood with their total lack of originality!'.

There are so many interpretations that this film [The Lobster] could be approached from. But Yorgos [Lanthimos] is so specifically minded, he's so clinical in his direction of the film.

You dream to eat whatever you can and get away with it and then when you're told you have to eat, it loses its fun straight away.

It doesn't matter if it's a drama or a comedy, the need to get the emotion and the character arc across is way harder in something like this so was more of a preparation.

I think people enjoy "The Lobster" because people respond to original things, but I think they only respond to original things if they connect to some truths within us.

I think people are propelled towards violence, and what propels them is much more interesting than the actual act of violence itself.

I remember some of the sets on "Alexander" were extraordinary and it would just take your breath away.

Making a film, you're in a really dark tunnel and the only kind of illumination is the shared experience you're having with your fellow cast and director.

From my experience, the only thing you can do is take what's written on the page and try, through your own curiosity and investigation, to make it your own and honor what the original intent was.

I was disappointed, but I kind of knew it was going to be an uphill struggle because of how strong the first season [of "True Detective"] was.

As much as "The Lobster" feels like a world we recognize but not the world we live in, it's all drawn in an allegorical way from all the systems that exist.