Bill Forsyth
Bill Forsyth
William David "Bill" Forsythis a Scottish film director and writer known for his films Gregory's Girl, Local Hero, and Comfort and Joy...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth29 July 1946
studios
The studio system reminds me of the stock market.
emotional interesting people
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
thinking comfort-and-joy office
I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.
people done wanted
I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done.
dark race people
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.
actors film made
I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.
enjoy
I don't really enjoy filming.
character people phrases
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.
sister two married
My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.
dollars easy effort million universal
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.
alan australia cox desire director eye industry lively los maintain met paul people storm studio wings works
In Toronto, I've met other director like me, in the wings of the studio industry and with a lively desire to maintain our independence, people like Paul Cox of Australia and Alan Rudolph, who works in the eye of the storm in Los Angeles.
suspicious work
Financiers are suspicious because I work in low-budget.
became father plumber shipping small
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.
addressing comfort films joy scottish
I think, unconsciously, I was addressing myself more with Comfort and Joy than with my other films to Scottish people.