Kevin Macdonald

You can relate to someone with a flaw.

— Kevin Macdonald

I don't read many young adult books.

— Kevin Macdonald

No man, no woman is without their flaws.

— Kevin Macdonald

I suppose that I'm easily bored.

— Kevin Macdonald

I'm not doing any more music films!

— Kevin Macdonald

I love submarine movies.

— Kevin Macdonald

If you can understand, you can feel compassion.

— Kevin Macdonald

It's so nice to be totally artistically free.

— Kevin Macdonald

I suppose making documentaries is like doing journalism on film.

— Kevin Macdonald

Sometimes people give away more by not saying something.

— Kevin Macdonald

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

— Kevin Macdonald

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

— Kevin Macdonald

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

— Kevin Macdonald

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

— Kevin Macdonald

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

— Kevin Macdonald

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

— Kevin Macdonald

Elvis Presley's estate is making 30 million a year, and they say that Marley shouldn't be, but he is from a much…

— Kevin Macdonald

I suppose that the Western has always been a kind of mold to which you could pour the concerns of the day,…

— Kevin Macdonald

As a filmmaker, I'm interminably curious and nosy, but certain times you meet people and think, 'I don't want to push you…

— Kevin Macdonald

My grandfather died before I started making films, but I definitely learnt this from him: believe in your own judgment and stick…

— Kevin Macdonald

For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your…

— Kevin Macdonald

The relationship between director and subject can become very intense. It's a bit like therapy, with lots of transferences going on. It's…

— Kevin Macdonald

The great thing about making a film on a submarine is that it's kind of like making a play. You've got this…

— Kevin Macdonald

If you go to pretty much everywhere in the developing world, you will find Bob Marley murals, and you'll find people playing…

— Kevin Macdonald

Although 'The Anderson Platoon' was what we would now call an 'embedded film' - with all the ambiguities that term implies -…

— Kevin Macdonald

The interesting thing to me is that somehow the future of movies will become a more social thing... I think that people…

— Kevin Macdonald

I went to see 'Francis Ha,' which I could certainly relate to. She ends up wandering the streets of Paris all alone…

— Kevin Macdonald

I don't think of myself particularly as a Scottish director, but you are what you are because the first ten years of…

— Kevin Macdonald

The Internet has meant that advertising has migrated; there are hardly any classifieds in newspapers any more because they're all online. If…

— Kevin Macdonald

People think that the Italians invented neorealism, but actually, Humphrey Jennings did. He was revolutionary in using non-professional actors in his films,…

— Kevin Macdonald

The things that are hardest to shoot are the things where you want people just to feel very natural, and you want…

— Kevin Macdonald

I was born at Rotten Row in Glasgow and brought up in Loch Lomond near a small place called Gartocharn. And it's…

— Kevin Macdonald

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

— Kevin Macdonald

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

— Kevin Macdonald

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

— Kevin Macdonald

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

— Kevin Macdonald

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

— Kevin Macdonald

Young people read their news online; they expect to get their news for free.

— Kevin Macdonald

I'm a cynical person who's normally attracted to the dark side of things.

— Kevin Macdonald

I think my brother always wanted to be a film producer.

— Kevin Macdonald