Cinema Quote by Kevin Macdonald

“I've done a few celebrity-related things, and I think on the first one - about Mick Jagger - I got stung and was not able to make the film I wanted to make.”

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It's so nice to be totally artistically free.

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Young people read their news online; they expect to get their news for free.

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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…

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I was a teenager in the '80s, and I was always a bit dismissive of Houston, as I think a lot of people who…

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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…

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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…

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Although 'The Anderson Platoon' was what we would now call an 'embedded film' - with all the ambiguities that term implies - somehow Schoendoerffer…

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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…

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When we made 'Life in a Day,' we asked people around the globe to record their lives on a single ordinary day. When we…

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There were many times during the filming of 'Touching the Void' when I wondered why I had ever thought I wanted to make this…

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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…

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