Bill Forsyth Quotes
"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
"I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors."
- Bill Forsyth
(Related: 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
(Related: Theatre, Youth)
"It's easier for me to get three times the amount of money I really want."
- Bill Forsyth
(Related: Money, Want)
"I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done."
- Bill Forsyth
(Related: People)
"It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films."
- Bill Forsyth
(Related: Comfort, Joy)
"At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home."
- Bill Forsyth
(Related: Home, Mother)
"I don't really enjoy filming."
- Bill Forsyth
"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
(Related: People)
"The studio system reminds me of the stock market."
- Bill Forsyth
"The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones."
- Bill Forsyth
(Related: Business, People, Authority, 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
(Related: Humor, Life, Thought, People, Problems, Race)
"My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad."
- Bill Forsyth
(Related: Sisters)