38 Quotes by Bill Forsyth

My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.

The studio system reminds me of the stock market.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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