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

I don't really enjoy filming.

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.

At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.

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

My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.

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.