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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.' "

Kevin Macdonald

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" 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. "

Kevin Macdonald

" 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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" I did not want to depict Al Gashey as evil. I wanted him to come across as someone who did what he did for reasons that were compelling. Whether or not we agree with him is a different matter. "

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

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

Kevin Macdonald

" You can relate to someone with a flaw. "

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" No man, no woman is without their flaws. "

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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. "

Kevin Macdonald

" 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. "

Kevin Macdonald

" I'm not doing any more music films! "

Kevin Macdonald

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

Kevin Macdonald

" I've done a few celebrity-related things, and I think on the first one - about Mick Jagger - I got stung and was not able to make the film I wanted to make. "

Kevin Macdonald

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

Kevin Macdonald

" Young people read their news online; they expect to get their news for free. "

Kevin Macdonald

" 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. "

Kevin Macdonald

" 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. "

Kevin Macdonald

" It's always nice to have the same people that you are familiar with and shorthand with, obviously, to be around you. "

Kevin Macdonald

" 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

" 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

" 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. "

Kevin Macdonald

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

Kevin Macdonald

" It's obviously presumptuous in some ways to talk about somebody's sexuality who's not here to describe themselves. "

Kevin Macdonald

" 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. "

Kevin Macdonald

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

Kevin Macdonald

" I love submarine movies. "

Kevin Macdonald

" 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. "

Kevin Macdonald

" It's interesting to me that the Arab Spring started in Tunisia, and in the marches, people were singing 'Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.' "

Kevin Macdonald

" 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. "

Kevin Macdonald

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

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