38 Quotes by Bill Forsyth

Financiers are suspicious because I work in low-budget.

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.

I've spent most of my life in Scotland, and I haven't moved around a great deal.

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.

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

That period of my life I was fairly reserved and I tried to make a collection of images that didn't really involve 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.

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

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.