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