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
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It's easy for me to be a Scotsman because of the overwhelming feeling of most people in Scotland of being subservient to England and therefore having a chip on our shoulder.
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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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I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done.
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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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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 actually emptied a theatre. It was a 40-minute film, and about 400 people left during the screening.
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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.
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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.
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I've spent most of my life in Scotland, and I haven't moved around a great deal.
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It was three years after I'd finished the script for Gregory's Girl that I got to make it, but I prefer That Sinking Feeling as a film.
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Financiers are suspicious because I work in low-budget.
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It's only lately that I've first-hand experience of the international community and filmmaker people.
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It's hard to make an incubator that worked. The concept sounds good, but I don't think Haywood County is a big enough place to do it. I don't see there has been any progress as far as incubating new businesses.
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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.