Young people read their news online; they expect to get their news for free. — 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 Being 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
The great thing about making a film on a submarine is that it's kind of like making a play. You've got this… — Kevin Macdonald Cinema Copy Share Image
I suppose that the Western has always been a kind of mold to which you could pour the concerns of the day,… — 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… — Kevin Macdonald Director 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
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
My grandfather died before I started making films, but I definitely learnt this from him: believe in your own judgment and stick… — 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
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
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
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 don't think of myself particularly as a Scottish director, but you are what you are because the first ten years of… — Kevin Macdonald 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
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 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 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
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 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
I think we're all greedy. Who do you know who says, 'I have enough! I don't need any more!'? It's part of… — Kevin Macdonald 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
It is hard to find the soul of Mick Jagger. It is very hidden. I think his true personality has receded so… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
It's obviously presumptuous in some ways to talk about somebody's sexuality who's not here to describe themselves. — 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… — Kevin Macdonald Cinema Copy Share Image
Put someone on a horse looking cold and wet, and they don't have to act. They just are cold and wet. — Kevin Macdonald 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
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
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
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
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
John Lennon made wonderful music, which people listen to as music. Nobody around the world is living their life according to the… — Kevin Macdonald Around the world 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 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
For me, the aim of making any film like this, any film about an artist, would be to send you back to… — Kevin Macdonald 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
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
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
