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" '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
Four
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Me
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" 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. "
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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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" When we made 'Life in a Day,' we asked people around the globe to record their lives on a single ordinary day. When we were cutting that film, we talked about what it might be like if we chose a day that already had significance to people. The result is 'Christmas in a Day.' "
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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. "
Kevin Macdonald
Now
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" If you can understand, you can feel compassion. "
Kevin Macdonald
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Feel
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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
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You
Never
" In my early career as a documentarian, I suppose I was trying to make films which - where it was all about making a big cinematic statement, and I think with 'Marley,' I slightly changed my direction and adopted a more mellow approach. "
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" Sometimes people give away more by not saying something. "
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Away
Sometimes
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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. "
Kevin Macdonald
Quality
Filter
Reading
" It's so nice to be totally artistically free. "
Kevin Macdonald
Totally
Free
Nice
" I was fascinated by making a submarine movie, inspired by the Kursk disaster. This idea of being trapped down at the bottom of the sea seemed so terrifying. I was very interested in making a sub film which wasn't a military film. You think, Well, why are they there, then, if they're not in the military? Oh, well, they must be looking for treasure. "
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You
Think
Sea
" 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
Me
Up
" 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. "
Kevin Macdonald
Him
Matter
Someone
" You can relate to someone with a flaw. "
Kevin Macdonald
You
Someone
Relate
" 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
Life
Remember
Death
" The submarine genre is a category with all its own rules. But shooting on water is famously tough. "
Kevin Macdonald
Own
Rules
Water
" If there is a tendency in modern television I hate, it is the unstoppable march of the dramatic reconstruction to tell the stories of anything from an ancient Egyptian battle to the early life of Paul Gascoigne. "
Kevin Macdonald
Television
Battle
Early
" I love Humphrey Jennings. People ask me who my favorite documentary maker is, and he's certainly in the top three. "
Kevin Macdonald
People
Love
Ask
" 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. "
Kevin Macdonald
Cinema
Life
See
" When you're an outsider and going into a culture like America, it's easier to stay away from any cliches because you're not really aware of what they are. "
Kevin Macdonald
Culture
You
Outsider
" I think my brother always wanted to be a film producer. "
Kevin Macdonald
Always
Brother
Film
" In war films, even more than in other kinds of documentary, we've come to think that shaky, poor-quality footage is somehow more authentic than something classically 'well shot.' "
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Think
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" 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
Me
" 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. "
Kevin Macdonald
Director
Good
You
" 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
Myself
Always
You
" 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
Made
Music
People
" It is hard to find the soul of Mick Jagger. It is very hidden. I think his true personality has receded so far behind the facade that he can no longer find the real person himself. "
Kevin Macdonald
True
Hidden
Soul
" 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. "
Kevin Macdonald
You
Want
Trying
" 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. "
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Relax
You
People
" 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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Horse
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