"It's very rare to get a film script that has good dialogue. A lot of the time, you spend on film sets really fighting to find out how to say the words."

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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 it well, you're not doing anything. And there are a few of those. It's perfectly possible to be a passenger on a film set because if somebody else has written it, you can make nothing of that role and that's exactly what bad directors do.

— Colin Firth