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

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.

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.

Those who have made it to the top have only done so through hard work and time conversion.

Reading words puts them in your mind. You never forget. Even when you don't get a chance to dwell on the music, you can hear it in your head.

Because that's the truth about people with obsessively organised plans: we're not trying to control everything in our lives. We're trying to block everything we can't.

To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.

My main intention was to not only create collections that defined myself and style, but to also create things that my fans identify with me and feel a belonging to.

Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is.

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.

I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here, 'Cause I remember it all, all, all... too well...

Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.