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" If there's a principle really worth sticking up for, I'll go the whole way. "

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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" 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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" For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your parents. "

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

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" The only obligation you have as a film-maker is to tell your version of the truth and to use your film to illuminate reality. Whatever that means. "

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" Most people in Uganda have something good to say about Amin - 'He was funny; he gave us pride to be African.' "

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" I used the same designer and costume designer on 'The Eagle' and 'The Last King of Scotland.' "

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" I'm a cynical person who's normally attracted to the dark side of things. "

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" Sometimes people give away more by not saying something. "

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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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" 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. "

Kevin Macdonald

" The great thing about making a film on a submarine is that it's kind of like making a play. You've got this limited environment. "

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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. "

Kevin Macdonald

" 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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" 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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" I can't claim my grandfather's work has influenced mine directly, but his life certainly inspired me to follow this path. "

Kevin Macdonald

" Coming from documentaries, my biggest challenge was to understand actors' psychologies. American actors take it all very seriously; British actors don't enter into all this methody way of doing things. "

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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. "

Kevin Macdonald

" 'Uprising' was one of the first three or four albums I ever bought in 1980 when I was 13, and that had a strong impact on me. "

Kevin Macdonald

" We should not confuse having a Flip camera with making a documentary. "

Kevin Macdonald

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

Kevin Macdonald

" 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. "

Kevin Macdonald

" When I was growing up on Loch Lomondside, one of the first albums I ever bought was Marley's 'Uprising.' I guess that would have been 1980 - just before he died. "

Kevin Macdonald

" 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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" 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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" Put someone on a horse looking cold and wet, and they don't have to act. They just are cold and wet. "

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

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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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