I've done a few celebrity-related things, and I think on the first one - about Mick Jagger - I got stung and was not able to make the film I wanted to make. — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
I think everything that I've done, I've been involved with for longer. Either you develop it from scratch, or you take something, and you develop it, and you work on the script, but I'm not sure how good I'd be… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
Young people read their news online; they expect to get their news for free. — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
I've fallen out very badly with some of the subjects I've interviewed, because they see their lives a certain way; to step into a… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
I was a teenager in the '80s, and I was always a bit dismissive of Houston, as I think a lot of people who… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
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… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
When you're an outsider and going into a culture like America, it's easier to stay away from any cliches because you're not really aware… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
Although 'The Anderson Platoon' was what we would now call an 'embedded film' - with all the ambiguities that term implies - somehow Schoendoerffer… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
The relationship between director and subject can become very intense. It's a bit like therapy, with lots of transferences going on. It's easy to… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
When we made 'Life in a Day,' we asked people around the globe to record their lives on a single ordinary day. When we… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
There were many times during the filming of 'Touching the Void' when I wondered why I had ever thought I wanted to make this… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
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… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
You can go to places in Africa and Asia and find Marley graffiti. In the slums of Nairobi, you see his lyrics painted on… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
