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
mother home moments
At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.
studios
The studio system reminds me of the stock market.
thinking comfort-and-joy office
I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.
sister two married
My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.
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That period of my life I was fairly reserved and I tried to make a collection of images that didn't really involve people.
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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.
left people
I actually emptied a theatre. It was a 40-minute film, and about 400 people left during the screening.
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I think, unconsciously, I was addressing myself more with Comfort and Joy than with my other films to Scottish people.
enjoy
I don't really enjoy filming.
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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.
emotional interesting people
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
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.
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It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.
theatre shy six
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.