Quotes by Bill Forsyth about People

8 quotes by Bill Forsyth about people

Bill Forsyth Scottish Director

I think, unconsciously, I was addressing myself more with...

I think, unconsciously, I was addressing myself more with Comfort and Joy than with my other films to Scottish people.

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I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to...

I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done.

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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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People think the stock market is a place of levelheadedness but it actually works in a totally emotional way: the President gets a pimple on his nose, and the thing plummets.

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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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That period of my life I was fairly reserved and I tried...

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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The movie business is very much like that: people in...

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

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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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