It was three years after I'd finished the script for Gregory's Girl that I got to make it, but I prefer That Sinking Feeling as a film.

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.

It's only lately that I've first-hand experience of the international community and filmmaker people.

I made That Sinking Feeling more for them than for anyone else, so I knew there was no need to put a message into it.

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