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

I don't really enjoy filming.
Bill Forsyth

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

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

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.
Bill Forsyth

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