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
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 Bob marley Copy Share Image
I think the parallels of a giant power with overwhelming military superiority and might, with America and Rome, it seems obvious to… — Kevin Macdonald America Copy Share Image
The submarine genre is a category with all its own rules. But shooting on water is famously tough. — Kevin Macdonald Genre Copy Share Image
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 Certainty 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
We're all fascinated by the way other people live their lives, how they cope with hardship and triumph, what they put in… — Kevin Macdonald Family 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 Actor 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
I went to see 'Francis Ha,' which I could certainly relate to. She ends up wandering the streets of Paris all alone… — Kevin Macdonald Alone 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
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
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
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
For me, what works well about 'Life in a Day' is that it's emotionally affecting without being manipulative. It really does make… — Kevin Macdonald Childhood Copy Share Image
Despite the limitations of the bulky 16mm camera and 10-minute film magazines, 'The Anderson Platoon' feels as spontaneous and fresh as any… — Kevin Macdonald Camera Copy Share Image
It's nice to stretch in different directions and use different muscles. You can get swallowed into Hollywood, where it's all about bums… — Kevin Macdonald Actor Copy Share Image
The only obligation you have as a film-maker is to tell your version of the truth and to use your film to… — Kevin Macdonald Cinema Copy Share Image
When I was growing up on Loch Lomondside, one of the first albums I ever bought was Marley's 'Uprising.' I guess that… — Kevin Macdonald Albums 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
I find it really difficult when you make a movie where it is set in Russia and everyone speaks in English. It… — Kevin Macdonald Crazy 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
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 Arab spring Copy Share Image
I've done a few celebrity-related things, and I think on the first one - about Mick Jagger - I got stung and… — Kevin Macdonald Cinema Copy Share Image
The amazing thing about Bob Marley is that there is no moving footage of him at all for the first ten or… — Kevin Macdonald Amazing 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
The tradition has always been that in Roman films, the Romans are always British, and it's usually posh British: Laurence Olivier and… — Kevin Macdonald Always 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
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 fascinated by making a submarine movie, inspired by the Kursk disaster. This idea of being trapped down at the bottom… — Kevin Macdonald Disaster Copy Share Image
People listen to The Beatles, but while they were muscially influential, they weren't culturally influential in quite the same way. You can… — Kevin Macdonald Beatles Copy Share Image
The thing with newspapers is that they are a filter. We're relying on the editors of that paper to be a filter… — Kevin Macdonald Filter Copy Share Image
I remember going to the university film club to see 'The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp' one night and being bowled… — Kevin Macdonald Beautiful Copy Share Image
I did not want to depict Al Gashey as evil. I wanted him to come across as someone who did what he… — Kevin Macdonald Come Copy Share Image
Like a lot of expatriate Scots, when you want to be called Scottish, it's useful. I see myself as being without nationality,… — Kevin Macdonald Being Copy Share Image
When you see how people in the developing world react and how they use a camera, you realise how narcissistic we are… — Kevin Macdonald Cinema Copy Share Image
We should not confuse having a Flip camera with making a documentary. — Kevin Macdonald Camera Copy Share Image
