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" I love submarine movies. "

Kevin Macdonald

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" If you go to pretty much everywhere in the developing world, you will find Bob Marley murals, and you'll find people playing his music. "

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" We're all fascinated by the way other people live their lives, how they cope with hardship and triumph, what they put in their home movies and family albums. "

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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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" 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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" Despite the limitations of the bulky 16mm camera and 10-minute film magazines, 'The Anderson Platoon' feels as spontaneous and fresh as any films that have come out of the Afghan or Iraq wars. "

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

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" People listen to The Beatles, but while they were muscially influential, they weren't culturally influential in quite the same way. You can go into the back of beyond in a little Indian village, and they will listen to Bob Marley. But they're not going to be listening to The Beatles or The Rolling Stones. "

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

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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. "

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" If you want to do 'Sword & Sandals' movies, people think that means it equals 'epic.' "

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

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" There were many times during the filming of 'Touching the Void' when I wondered why I had ever thought I wanted to make this film. "

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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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" When you look at almost every submarine movie, to some degree or another, there's this 'Moby Dick' element, this Ahab element to them. "

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" I think my brother always wanted to be a film producer. "

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" I think we're all greedy. Who do you know who says, 'I have enough! I don't need any more!'? It's part of human nature. "

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" When you're trying to make a film, you're trying to find a way to love your subject, and you want your audience to love your subject. "

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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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" Although 'The Anderson Platoon' was what we would now call an 'embedded film' - with all the ambiguities that term implies - somehow Schoendoerffer got away with showing things as they really were from a grunt's perspective. "

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" The amazing thing about Bob Marley is that there is no moving footage of him at all for the first ten or eleven years of his career. From 1962 to 1973, there's nothing, not a single frame. "

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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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" People think that the Italians invented neorealism, but actually, Humphrey Jennings did. He was revolutionary in using non-professional actors in his films, and he got extraordinary performances out of them. "

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

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" Documentary makers use other people's lives as their raw material, and that is morally indefensible. "

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" John Lennon made wonderful music, which people listen to as music. Nobody around the world is living their life according to the precepts of John Lennon. "

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