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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I recommend to any of you, that's always a good way to make a film: use the interesting bits. "

" I started as a documentary maker, and they're my first love. "

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

" Most people in Uganda have something good to say about Amin - 'He was funny; he gave us pride to be African.' "

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

" What got me into making movies was that I wanted to be a journalist. "

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" It's so nice to be totally artistically free. "

" I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa. "

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

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" The submarine genre is a category with all its own rules. But shooting on water is famously tough. "

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

" I think there's always been interest in Bob Marley. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" I went through a period of not watching fiction. "

" 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. "

" You can relate to someone with a flaw. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I suppose that the Western has always been a kind of mold to which you could pour the concerns of the day, but have them seen in the simple terms of the Western, of one alley or whatever. "