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" What got me into making movies was that I wanted to be a journalist. "
Kevin Macdonald
Journalist
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" 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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" I was a teenager in the '80s, and I was always a bit dismissive of Houston, as I think a lot of people who considered themselves 'cool music fans' were. She was poppy, bubble gum, making music not considered very cool. But you can't help but dance to some of those songs or feel emotionally affected by 'I Will Always Love You.' "
Kevin Macdonald
Think
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Dance
" It's obviously presumptuous in some ways to talk about somebody's sexuality who's not here to describe themselves. "
Kevin Macdonald
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Some
" 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. "
Kevin Macdonald
World
You
Will
" 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. "
Kevin Macdonald
Take
Always
Tradition
" 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. "
Kevin Macdonald
Long
Thought
Ocean
" I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa. "
Kevin Macdonald
Like
Documentary
Little
" It's always nice to have the same people that you are familiar with and shorthand with, obviously, to be around you. "
Kevin Macdonald
You
Around
Always
" 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
" 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. "
Kevin Macdonald
Think
Early
Direction
" 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. "
Kevin Macdonald
Find
You
Russia
" 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. "
Kevin Macdonald
See
Alone
Doing
" 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
Relax
You
People
" I don't read many young adult books. "
Kevin Macdonald
Young Adult
Young
Many
" I used the same designer and costume designer on 'The Eagle' and 'The Last King of Scotland.' "
Kevin Macdonald
Same
Costume
Last
" 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. "
Kevin Macdonald
Life
Great
Food
" 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.' "
Kevin Macdonald
Life
Christmas
Day
" Every film that is made about the past is always a reflection of the present. "
Kevin Macdonald
Always
Present
Reflection
" I love submarine movies. "
Kevin Macdonald
Submarine
Movies
Love
" 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
Up
First
Growing Up
" 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
Me
" I think there's always been interest in Bob Marley. "
Kevin Macdonald
Been
Interest
Think
" 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. "
Kevin Macdonald
Nothing
Moving
Frame
" 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
" If you can understand, you can feel compassion. "
Kevin Macdonald
Understand
Feel
Compassion
" The submarine genre is a category with all its own rules. But shooting on water is famously tough. "
Kevin Macdonald
Own
Rules
Water
" 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
" 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
Live
Family
Home
" With fiction, I've grown to really love the challenge of lying, the challenge of telling a good tale that isn't truthful, and working with performers is endlessly fascinating. You know, learning what a good performance is, how to get a good performance, how much or how little you need to create emotion or to create character. "
Kevin Macdonald
Good
Love
Learning
" 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
People
You
Never