Young people read their news online; they expect to get their news for free. — Kevin Macdonald Free 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… — Kevin Macdonald Cinema 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… — Kevin Macdonald Bubble gum 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… — Kevin Macdonald Character 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… — Kevin Macdonald America Copy Share Image
Although 'The Anderson Platoon' was what we would now call an 'embedded film' - with all the ambiguities that term implies -… — Kevin Macdonald Film 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… — Kevin Macdonald Director 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 Christmas 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… — Kevin Macdonald Cinema 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… — Kevin Macdonald American 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… — Kevin Macdonald Artist Copy Share Image
The interesting thing to me is that somehow the future of movies will become a more social thing... I think that people… — Kevin Macdonald Communication Copy Share Image
A publisher friend of mine suggested that I write a book about my grandfather, who had just died. I had nothing else… — Kevin Macdonald Books 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 Money Copy Share Image
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… — Kevin Macdonald Always 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 Cinema Copy Share Image
If there is a tendency in modern television I hate, it is the unstoppable march of the dramatic reconstruction to tell the… — Kevin Macdonald Ancient egyptian Copy Share Image
Documentary makers use other people's lives as their raw material, and that is morally indefensible. — Kevin Macdonald Documentary Copy Share Image
I can't claim my grandfather's work has influenced mine directly, but his life certainly inspired me to follow this path. — Kevin Macdonald Follow Copy Share Image
When you look at almost every submarine movie, to some degree or another, there's this 'Moby Dick' element, this Ahab element to… — Kevin Macdonald Another Copy Share Image
I started as a documentary maker, and they're my first love. — Kevin Macdonald Documentary Copy Share Image
It is hard to find the soul of Mick Jagger. It is very hidden. I think his true personality has receded so… — Kevin Macdonald Find Copy Share Image
If there's a principle really worth sticking up for, I'll go the whole way. — Kevin Macdonald Go Copy Share Image
The submarine genre is a category with all its own rules. But shooting on water is famously tough. — Kevin Macdonald Rules Copy Share Image
