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Bill Forsyth
Scottish
Director
About the author
I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.
Bill Forsyth,
Scottish
Director
#Comfort
#Joy
I'm not fond of any of my films in an intimate way, but Gregory's Girl would be number 4 on my list.
Bill Forsyth,
Scottish
Director
I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.
Bill Forsyth,
Scottish
Director
#Thought
#Actors
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.
Bill Forsyth,
Scottish
Director
#Youth
#Theatre
It's easier for me to get three times the amount of money I really want.
Bill Forsyth,
Scottish
Director
#Want
#Money
I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done.
Bill Forsyth,
Scottish
Director
#People
It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.
Bill Forsyth,
Scottish
Director
#Comfort
#Joy
At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.
Bill Forsyth,
Scottish
Director
#Home
#Mother
I don't really enjoy filming.
Bill Forsyth,
Scottish
Director
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.
Bill Forsyth,
Scottish
Director
#People
The studio system reminds me of the stock market.
Bill Forsyth,
Scottish
Director
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
Bill Forsyth,
Scottish
Director
#People
#Authority
#Business
#Decisions
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.
Bill Forsyth,
Scottish
Director
#Life
#People
#Problems
#Thought
#Race
#Humor
My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.
Bill Forsyth,
Scottish
Director
#Sisters