Bill Forsyth Quotes (24 Quotes)

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.

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.

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

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

I actually emptied a theatre. It was a 40-minute film, and about 400 people left during the screening.

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.

It's hard to make an incubator that worked. The concept sounds good, but I don't think Haywood County is a big enough place to do it. I don't see there has been any progress as far as incubating new businesses.

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

So those who misunderstood Comfort and Joy the most were those who thought I was just trying to make a jolly farce.

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

I don't really enjoy filming.

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.

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.

My father died five years ago.

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

In Toronto, I've met other director like me, in the wings of the studio industry and with a lively desire to maintain our independence, people like Paul Cox of Australia and Alan Rudolph, who works in the eye of the storm in Los Angeles.

It's only lately that I've first-hand experience of the international community and filmmaker people.

It's easy for me to be a Scotsman because of the overwhelming feeling of most people in Scotland of being subservient to England and therefore having a chip on our shoulder.

The studio system reminds me of the stock market.

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

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

I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.

My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.

I think, unconsciously, I was addressing myself more with Comfort and Joy than with my other films to Scottish people.