I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself.

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.

I'm not fond of any of my films in an intimate way, but Gregory's Girl would be number 4 on my list.

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

My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.

It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.

The studio system reminds me of the stock market.