Bill Forsyth — Scottish Director born on July 29, 1946,

William David "Bill" Forsyth is a Scottish film director and writer known for his films Gregory's Girl, Local Hero, and Comfort and Joy... (wikipedia)

It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.
I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.
The studio system reminds me of the stock market.
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
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.