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It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged. Bill Condon

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In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it. Bill Conti

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

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

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

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

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

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She is also brought to a point of zero in the beginning of the story, and I think you can say that about a lot of my films in that they are often about people who are brought to the point of zero in the beginning of the film. Bille August

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I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts. Bille August

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I spent almost 3 months with Bergman, four hours every afternoon. We sat and went through the whole script. To be honest, most of the time we talked about life and other different things. It was really a wonderful time. Bille August

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We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter. Bille August

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