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" If you can understand, you can feel compassion. "
Kevin Macdonald
Understand
Feel
Compassion
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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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" 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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" We should not confuse having a Flip camera with making a documentary. "
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" I find it really difficult when you make a movie where it is set in Russia and everyone speaks in English. It drives me crazy. "
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" I suppose that I'm easily bored. "
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Suppose
Bored
" 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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Want
Trying
" 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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" I love submarine movies. "
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" Every film that is made about the past is always a reflection of the present. "
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Always
Present
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" In some ways, making documentaries is like being a journalist. You interview people and then use the bits you want to use as opposed to the bits they want you to use. "
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People
Some
Want
" 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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Think
" I used the same designer and costume designer on 'The Eagle' and 'The Last King of Scotland.' "
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Last
" I can't claim my grandfather's work has influenced mine directly, but his life certainly inspired me to follow this path. "
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Work
Grandfather
Life
" 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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Extraordinary
Think
People
" 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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You
Around
Always
" Sometimes people give away more by not saying something. "
Kevin Macdonald
Away
Sometimes
More
" 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. "
Kevin Macdonald
Grandfather
Always
Family
" 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. "
Kevin Macdonald
Listen
You
Village
" Like a lot of expatriate Scots, when you want to be called Scottish, it's useful. I see myself as being without nationality, as a European: my region is Scotland; my nationality is European - isn't that a very Alex Salmond thing to say? "
Kevin Macdonald
Without
You
Myself
" It's nice to stretch in different directions and use different muscles. You can get swallowed into Hollywood, where it's all about bums on seats and how commercial a film is. "
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You
Different
Film
" 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. "
Kevin Macdonald
Simple
Always
Day
" Everyone's got to make one submarine drama in their life. "
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Drama
Life
Submarine
" 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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Filter
Reading
" Documentary makers use other people's lives as their raw material, and that is morally indefensible. "
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Raw
Other
People
" 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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Think
Push
You
" 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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Art
You
Me
" 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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Three
Documentary
Lack
" 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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Life
Remember
Death
" It's obviously presumptuous in some ways to talk about somebody's sexuality who's not here to describe themselves. "
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Talk
Somebody
Some
" The relationship between director and subject can become very intense. It's a bit like therapy, with lots of transferences going on. It's easy to feel guilty. "
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Easy
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Relationship