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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I assure you that in all matters of discretion not involving food, we make etiquette tutors look like slobbering barbarians.

Did you bring me a rat?""He has no time for rats, George.""No time for rats? That's just sad.

Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.

It Is Very Easy To Defeat Someone, But It Is Very Hard To Win Someone

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground, and then he sows it; after that he plants, and then he gathers the fruits.

Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.

I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world

There was much conversation, most of which sounded like the rest of it.

Confidence is everything. If you start second guessing yourself, you're bound to run into more bad outings