If you want to do 'Sword & Sandals' movies, people think that means it equals 'epic.' — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
Documentary makers use other people's lives as their raw material, and that is morally indefensible. — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
Most people in Uganda have something good to say about Amin - 'He was funny; he gave us pride to be African.' — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
Young people read their news online; they expect to get their news for free. — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
The things that are hardest to shoot are the things where you want people just to feel very natural, and you want… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In some ways, making documentaries is like being a journalist. You interview people and then use the bits you want to use… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
You can get good performances in quite sizable roles from people who have never been in front of a camera, people who… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
I love Humphrey Jennings. People ask me who my favorite documentary maker is, and he's certainly in the top three. — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
People who die in an untimely way who are artists, somehow that validates their art, we feel. Why culturally we feel that,… — 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.… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
John Lennon made wonderful music, which people listen to as music. Nobody around the world is living their life according to the… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
With 'Black Sea,' I long had an idea that I wanted to do a film about people stuck on the bottom of… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
It's interesting to me that the Arab Spring started in Tunisia, and in the marches, people were singing 'Get up, stand up,… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
It's always nice to have the same people that you are familiar with and shorthand with, obviously, to be around you. — 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
