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" I love Humphrey Jennings. People ask me who my favorite documentary maker is, and he's certainly in the top three. "
Kevin Macdonald
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" I went to see 'Francis Ha,' which I could certainly relate to. She ends up wandering the streets of Paris all alone - something I've ended up doing a number of times in capital cities around Europe. "
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" In film, I believe things should either be documentary or drama. "
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" I always loved digging away at the story, trying to find out things that people don't want you to find out and piecing it all together. I love the treasure hunt aspect of it, the thrill of the chase. "
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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'm a cynical person who's normally attracted to the dark side of things. "
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" A publisher friend of mine suggested that I write a book about my grandfather, who had just died. I had nothing else to fill my empty days with, so I started work on this book. While researching it - watching lots of movies, talking to moviemakers - I became interested in movies and started making documentaries. "
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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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" You can get good performances in quite sizable roles from people who have never been in front of a camera, people who maybe have never been in front of a movie theater. "
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" The Internet has meant that advertising has migrated; there are hardly any classifieds in newspapers any more because they're all online. If people have a car to sell, for example, they sell it online; they don't go to the newspaper. "
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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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" When you're an outsider and going into a culture like America, it's easier to stay away from any cliches because you're not really aware of what they are. "
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" I think everything that I've done, I've been involved with for longer. Either you develop it from scratch, or you take something, and you develop it, and you work on the script, but I'm not sure how good I'd be at just sort of taking a piece of material and being a director for hire like that. "
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" The things that are hardest to shoot are the things where you want people just to feel very natural, and you want to do love scenes, and you want to do just kids hanging out and trying to get them to relax. "
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" If you want to do 'Sword & Sandals' movies, people think that means it equals 'epic.' "
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" I'm not particularly ethnically Scottish; I have one grandfather who is Scottish, although he's called Macdonald, and you don't get a lot more Scottish than that. The Scottish part of my family are from Skye, and I've always been very aware of that - always been very attracted to Scottish subject matter, I guess. "
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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 interesting thing to me is that somehow the future of movies will become a more social thing... I think that people will see them communally and will be talking about them as they're watching them, in a way, and immediately after watching them, and they'll all become the conversation. I think that's pretty interesting. "
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" No man, no woman is without their flaws. "
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" It's always nice to have the same people that you are familiar with and shorthand with, obviously, to be around you. "
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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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