51 Kevin Macdonald Quotes for You to Enjoy

Kevin Macdonald

Scottish Director

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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. Kevin Macdonald

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It's so nice to be totally artistically free. Kevin Macdonald

Free Nice Totally

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. Kevin Macdonald

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Every film that is made about the past is always a reflection of the present. Kevin Macdonald

Reflection Made Past Every About Always Film Present

Elvis Presley's estate is making 30 million a year, and they say that Marley shouldn't be, but he is from a much poorer part of the world, and a lot more people need the money. Kevin Macdonald

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

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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. Kevin Macdonald

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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.' Kevin Macdonald

Me Rights People Singing Spring Arab Arab Spring Were Up Get Tunisia Interesting Stand Your Stand Up Marches Started

We should not confuse having a Flip camera with making a documentary. Kevin Macdonald

Confuse Having Documentary Making Camera Should Flip

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. Kevin Macdonald

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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.' Kevin Macdonald

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

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 People Nice Obviously Around Always Familiar Same Shorthand

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

Life Music People Wonderful World Made Precepts Living John John Lennon Nobody Around According Listen Which Lennon

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. Kevin Macdonald

You Three About Something Documentary Exhausting Lack Which Certainty Row

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. Kevin Macdonald

You Bit Defines Born Brought Small Glasgow Like Attraction Up Irresistible Where Anyone Place Who Rotten Near Row

I'm not particularly ethnically Scottish; I have one grandfather who is Scottish, although he's called Macdonald, and you don't get a lot more Scottish than that. The Scottish part of my family are from Skye, and I've always been very aware of that - always been very attracted to Scottish subject matter, I guess. Kevin Macdonald

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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

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Like a lot of expatriate Scots, when you want to be called Scottish, it's useful. I see myself as being without nationality, as a European: my region is Scotland; my nationality is European - isn't that a very Alex Salmond thing to say? Kevin Macdonald

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My grandfather died before I started making films, but I definitely learnt this from him: believe in your own judgment and stick to your guns - 99% of the time, you'll be glad you did. Kevin Macdonald

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If there's a principle really worth sticking up for, I'll go the whole way. Kevin Macdonald

Worth Way Principle Sticking Go Up Really Whole

Put someone on a horse looking cold and wet, and they don't have to act. They just are cold and wet. Kevin Macdonald

Looking Cold Someone Horse Put Wet Just Act

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