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.
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