Bill Forsyth Quotes

At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it`s certainly my home.

It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.

It`s easier for me to get three times the amount of money I really want.

I`d made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.

When I read Housekeeping, it wasn`t from the point of filming. It was months and months later that the idea of making it into a movie caught.

I didn`t think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.

I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself.

I don`t really enjoy filming.

There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don`t get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly.

The studio system reminds me of the stock market.

I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I`ve done.

I`m not fond of any of my films in an intimate way, but Gregory`s Girl would be number 4 on my list.

It was three years after I`d finished the script for Gregory`s Girl that I got to make it, but I prefer That Sinking Feeling as a film.

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.