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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
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" In film, I believe things should either be documentary or drama. "
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" Although 'The Anderson Platoon' was what we would now call an 'embedded film' - with all the ambiguities that term implies - somehow Schoendoerffer got away with showing things as they really were from a grunt's perspective. "
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" 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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" No man, no woman is without their flaws. "
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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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" 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.' "
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" It's so nice to be totally artistically free. "
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" Young people read their news online; they expect to get their news for free. "
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" If there's a principle really worth sticking up for, I'll go the whole way. "
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" 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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" I always loved digging away at the story, trying to find out things that people don't want you to find out and piecing it all together. I love the treasure hunt aspect of it, the thrill of the chase. "
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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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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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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" It's obviously presumptuous in some ways to talk about somebody's sexuality who's not here to describe themselves. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" If you can understand, you can feel compassion. "
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" I don't think life gets any better than sitting in the sun while a legend of French cinema tells you stories about making 'Belle de Jour' and other wonderful films, and eating great food. "
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" 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. "
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" I suppose that I'm easily bored. "
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" The amazing thing about Bob Marley is that there is no moving footage of him at all for the first ten or eleven years of his career. From 1962 to 1973, there's nothing, not a single frame. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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