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
I always loved digging away at the story, trying to find out things that people don't want you to find out and… — Kevin Macdonald Find 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
The first documentary I saw that tried to show the actual experience of being a soldier in combat was 'The Anderson Platoon,'… — Kevin Macdonald Best 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
It feels like we're all so familiar now with the traditional three-act structure that, actually, stories that are more complex, more naughty,… — Kevin Macdonald More Copy Share Image
We should not confuse having a Flip camera with making a documentary. — Kevin Macdonald Camera Copy Share Image
For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your… — Kevin Macdonald Childhood Copy Share Image
'Uprising' was one of the first three or four albums I ever bought in 1980 when I was 13, and that had… — Kevin Macdonald Four Copy Share Image
When you're trying to make a film, you're trying to find a way to love your subject, and you want your audience… — Kevin Macdonald Cinema Copy Share Image
For me, the aim of making any film like this, any film about an artist, would be to send you back to… — Kevin Macdonald Aim 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 Documentary 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 Art Copy Share Image
I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa. — Kevin Macdonald Apply 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 Always 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,… — Kevin Macdonald Develop Copy Share Image
