Bill Forsyth Quotes

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

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• I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I’ve done.

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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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• 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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• I don’t really enjoy filming.

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

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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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• My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.

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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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• The studio system reminds me of the stock market.

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

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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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Bill Forsyth (14)

Birth:	29th July, 1946
Nationality:	Scottish
Profession:	Film Director, Screenwriter

About

Bill Forsyth was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He is a Scottish film director and writer best known for his films Gregory's Girl, Local Hero, and Comfort and Joy, as well as his commitment to national film-making. Forsyth first came to attention with a low-budget film, That Sinking Feeling, made with youth theatre actors and featuring a cameo appearance by the Edinburgh gallery owner Richard Demarco. The relative success of the film was carried to a far higher level by his next film Gregory's Girl in 1981. The 1987 film Housekeeping, an adaptation of Marilynne Robinson's 1981 novel, was Forsyth's first American work. In 1999 he made Gregory's Two Girls as a sequel to Gregory's Girl, with John Gordon Sinclair playing the same character, but it received mixed reviews.

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