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

"I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors."

"It's easier for me to get three times the amount of money I really want."

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

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

"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."

"I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash."

"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."