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.

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

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

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.

The studio system reminds me of the stock market.

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