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. |
It's easier for me to get three times the amount of money I really want. |
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. |
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. |
It's only lately that I've first-hand experience of the international community and filmmaker people. |
My father died five years ago. |
My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad. |
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. |
So those who misunderstood Comfort and Joy the most were those who thought I was just trying to make a jolly farce. |
That period of my life I was fairly reserved and I tried to make a collection of images that didn't really involve people. |
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones. |
The studio system reminds me of the stock market. |
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. |
Universal wasn't out a lot of money, a million dollars or so, so it was easy not to put a lot of effort into the movie. |
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. |