Bill Forsyth Quotes

When I was a very small boy, my father was a plumber in a shipping yard, but then it transpired that he became a grocer. - Bill Forsyth

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. - Bill Forsyth

Universal wasn't out a lot of money, a million dollars or so, so it was easy not to put a lot of effort into the movie. - Bill Forsyth

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. - Bill Forsyth

The studio system reminds me of the stock market. - Bill Forsyth

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

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

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

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. - Bill Forsyth

My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad. - Bill Forsyth

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