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

Kevin Macdonald

Parents

Childhood

World

" 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. "

" 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

Singing

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" With 'Black Sea,' I long had an idea that I wanted to do a film about people stuck on the bottom of the ocean. I thought that was a terrifying scenario. "

" 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. "

Kevin Macdonald

Think

People

" 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. "

" For me, what works well about 'Life in a Day' is that it's emotionally affecting without being manipulative. It really does make you think about the connectivity of the world, the similarities and differences. It shows the experiences we all go through: birth, childhood, falling in love, having kids, getting ill, dying. "

" The tradition has always been that in Roman films, the Romans are always British, and it's usually posh British: Laurence Olivier and his ilk. My take on all this was that it's a metaphor for empire and the end of empire. "

" 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. "

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

" I've fallen out very badly with some of the subjects I've interviewed, because they see their lives a certain way; to step into a cinema and see your life depicted in another way can come as a terrible shock. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" For me, the aim of making any film like this, any film about an artist, would be to send you back to the art. "

Kevin Macdonald

Art

You

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

Kevin Macdonald

Films

Doing

" 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. "

" My grandfather died before I started making films, but I definitely learnt this from him: believe in your own judgment and stick to your guns - 99% of the time, you'll be glad you did. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "