Bill Forsyth quotes
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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'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.”
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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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“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 movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.”
-- Bill ForsythSource : Interview with Gerald Peary, www.geraldpeary.com. September 1985.
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“The studio system reminds me of the stock market.”
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“It's easier for me to get three times the amount of money I really want.”
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“It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.”
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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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“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.”
-- Bill Forsyth
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