Colin Farrell: Filmmaking is a beautiful thing

Colin Farrell finds filmmaking to be a "really beautiful thing".

The 49-year-old actor has enjoyed a hugely successful career in Hollywood, and Colin remains passionate about the filmmaking process.

The award-winning movie star - who has previously appeared in films such as Minority Report and Phone Booth - told Variety: "It is inevitably a communal experience. In doing what we’re lucky enough to do, you get to work with a community of filmmakers in front of and behind the camera, and you get to share all the uncertainties and the curiosities and whatever love or lack of love you may have felt in your life. You get to bring it to work. It’s a really beautiful thing."

Colin's love of filmmaking can be traced back to watching Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the 1977 sci-fi movie.

The actor explained: "I was raised on Steven Spielberg films and John Williams raised me through his scores — but in that film, and in a lot of his films, there was a central dysfunction of family dynamics. There’s all this exciting sci-fi stuff, but there was the Richard Dreyfuss character: There was a certain aggression and a certain inevitable disassociation that came between him and his family.

"I remember being shocked by that as a kid. I was there to be entertained, and I was entertained. But there was also something very painful and very truthful at the centre of this big Steven Spielberg film about aliens.

"That was the first time I remember seeing elements of my own family life represented on the screen. It didn’t have any definitive answers, but it was just this thing of feeling less alone."

Meanwhile, Colin previously revealed that feels "excited" by the recent resurgence of "original" movies.

The actor has relished watching films such as Sinners, Bring Her Back and Weapons over the last year, and Colin confessed to feeling "really, really excited" by the resurgence of original stories.

He told The Hollywood Reporter: "I know there’s a lot of sequels and there’s talk about a lot of sequels and IPs that have been used before and reimaginings and revisitings of worlds. This year I saw Bring Her Back, and then I saw obviously Sinners and the other day I saw Weapons.

"I get really excited when I see original stuff - really, really excited. So there’s always going to be original stories and there’s always going to be rehashes and there’s room for both."