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

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.

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

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.

[Marriage] promote[s] the moral order of the world - Edith Wharton "The Eyes

If you aim upward, you will at shoot higher things (future prospects). If you aim downwards, you may shoot your feet (foundation).

Who better to confess to than a dying woman?

Kill me, then! You will not win, you cannot win! The wand will never, ever be yours-

...Leggett feels that to be excitingly right in general is better than to be dully accurate in particular. That is why he is such an effective journalist.

Lobbying is the world's second - oldest profession.

If you can't know the truth, said Isolde, live the most awesome lie you can think off.

Giving back is the new luxury.

By needlessly provoking him [Vladimir Putin] and humiliating him, we empower far worse possibilities in Russia.

A top aide to Donald Trump says he quit the campaign this weekend because of Trump's public feuds, but Trump said he was fired. When asked what he was fired for, Trump said, 'Quitting!'