Bill Forsyth

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. ”

My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad. ”

It's easier for me to get three times the amount of money I really want. ”

I don't really enjoy filming. ”

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors. ”

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

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