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Kevin Macdonald

Scottish Director

About Life Me People Think You

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

Life Drama Everyone Make Got Submarine

I used the same designer and costume designer on 'The Eagle' and 'The Last King of Scotland.' Kevin Macdonald

King Costume Scotland Same Used Eagle Designer Last

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. Kevin Macdonald

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. Kevin Macdonald

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

Believe Drama Documentary Either Should Film Things

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

Life Battle Hate Dramatic Television Ancient Tell Reconstruction Tendency Unstoppable Modern Egyptian Stories Anything Paul March Early Early Life

People who die in an untimely way who are artists, somehow that validates their art, we feel. Why culturally we feel that, I don't know. Kevin Macdonald

Art People Way Somehow Feel Know Die Artists Who Why

You can relate to someone with a flaw. Kevin Macdonald

You Relate Someone Flaw

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

Me Journalist Got Making Making Movies Wanted Movies

I love submarine movies. Kevin Macdonald

Love Submarine Movies

'State of Play' is a romantic story at its heart. Kevin Macdonald

Heart State Romantic Story Play

Sometimes people give away more by not saying something. Kevin Macdonald

Saying People Sometimes Give Something More Away

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

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

You People Think Equals Want Movies Epic Means Sword

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

Love Music You People Fans Dance Will Think Music Fans Teenager Considered Bit Those Gum Some Bubble Songs Emotionally Feel She Houston Always Making Were Affected Lot Very Love You Themselves Help Who Cool Poppy

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. Kevin Macdonald

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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

Good You People Never Performance Camera Been Get Roles Front Quite Maybe Movie Theater Movie Theater Who

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

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People listen to The Beatles, but while they were muscially influential, they weren't culturally influential in quite the same way. You can go into the back of beyond in a little Indian village, and they will listen to Bob Marley. But they're not going to be listening to The Beatles or The Rolling Stones. Kevin Macdonald

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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

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