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" Every film that is made about the past is always a reflection of the present. "

Kevin Macdonald

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" I think the parallels of a giant power with overwhelming military superiority and might, with America and Rome, it seems obvious to me. "

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" In war films, even more than in other kinds of documentary, we've come to think that shaky, poor-quality footage is somehow more authentic than something classically 'well shot.' "

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" I suppose that the Western has always been a kind of mold to which you could pour the concerns of the day, but have them seen in the simple terms of the Western, of one alley or whatever. "

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" I don't read many young adult books. "

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" I don't think of myself particularly as a Scottish director, but you are what you are because the first ten years of your life, and where you spend them, brand you. In that sense, I'll always be a Scottish director. "

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" The thing with newspapers is that they are a filter. We're relying on the editors of that paper to be a filter and to tell you that this is worth reading about, this is quality, and this is quite reliable. "

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" In film, I believe things should either be documentary or drama. "

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" People who die in an untimely way who are artists, somehow that validates their art, we feel. Why culturally we feel that, I don't know. "

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" For me, the aim of making any film like this, any film about an artist, would be to send you back to the art. "

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" Everyone's got to make one submarine drama in their life. "

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" I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa. "

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" I started as a documentary maker, and they're my first love. "

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" As a filmmaker, I'm interminably curious and nosy, but certain times you meet people and think, 'I don't want to push you too hard because I can see this is painful for you.' "

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" I recommend to any of you, that's always a good way to make a film: use the interesting bits. "

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" There's something about the lack of certainty with a documentary, which is exhausting if you do three in a row. It's nerve-wracking. "

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" It's so nice to be totally artistically free. "

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" It feels like we're all so familiar now with the traditional three-act structure that, actually, stories that are more complex, more naughty, that allow for disagreement and discussion, are more interesting to us. "

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" When you see how people in the developing world react and how they use a camera, you realise how narcissistic we are and how the filming of ourselves and thinking that we're interesting enough to care about is odd. "

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" I remember going to the university film club to see 'The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp' one night and being bowled over. It was one of the most beautiful films I'd ever seen. And it felt so personal. "

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" My grandfather died before I started making films, but I definitely learnt this from him: believe in your own judgment and stick to your guns - 99% of the time, you'll be glad you did. "

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" I was born at Rotten Row in Glasgow and brought up in Loch Lomond near a small place called Gartocharn. And it's a bit like anyone: where you're brought up, you have an irresistible attraction to that place; it defines who you are. "

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" Elvis Presley's estate is making 30 million a year, and they say that Marley shouldn't be, but he is from a much poorer part of the world, and a lot more people need the money. "

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" You can go to places in Africa and Asia and find Marley graffiti. In the slums of Nairobi, you see his lyrics painted on walls, and you realise he has this almost religious significance to the underclass of the world. He's a guy born in a hut with no bed, and now he's probably the most listened-to artist in the world. It's fascinating. "

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" The tradition has always been that in Roman films, the Romans are always British, and it's usually posh British: Laurence Olivier and his ilk. My take on all this was that it's a metaphor for empire and the end of empire. "

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" I suppose making documentaries is like doing journalism on film. "

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" The submarine genre is a category with all its own rules. But shooting on water is famously tough. "

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" If there is a tendency in modern television I hate, it is the unstoppable march of the dramatic reconstruction to tell the stories of anything from an ancient Egyptian battle to the early life of Paul Gascoigne. "

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" I suppose that I'm easily bored. "

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" The first documentary I saw that tried to show the actual experience of being a soldier in combat was 'The Anderson Platoon,' by French director Pierre Schoendoerffer, which won the Oscar for best documentary in 1967. "

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