The Story of Film: An Odyssey (TV Mini Series)

European New Wave (2011)

Bill Forsyth: Self - Interviewee

Quotes 

• Bill Forsyth - Interviewee : I think a lot of film makers think a story is the purpose of a film, and that the characters and the actors really have just got to establish the story and take it to where it's going. And that seems to me to be the complete opposite of what should be happening, because there should be no story. I mean, we spend our lives inventing stories, but the story actually doesn't exist. We exist, and our apprehension of a story is how we explain the kind of meanderings that we take. So, there's no such thing as the empirical story. It's just what happens to people.