Quotes by Bill Forsyth about People

Bill Forsyth Scottish Director

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

Quote by Bill Forsyth about people

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

Quote by Bill Forsyth about people

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.

Quote by Bill Forsyth about people

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.

Quote by Bill Forsyth about 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.

Quote by Bill Forsyth about people

That period of my life I was fairly reserved and I tried to make a collection of images that didn't really involve people.

Quote by Bill Forsyth about people

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

Quote by Bill Forsyth about people

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.

Quote by Bill Forsyth about people