Kevin Macdonald Quotes
I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa.
Quotes to Explore
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I worked at CNN for almost 26 years. I worked in Mutual Radio for 20 years. I've been in the business 57 years. I have never seen a bias off the air or on.
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.
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With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.
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I'm marriable. But I'm not married.
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A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
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My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.
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Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.
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Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.
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I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.
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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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I can't say that the ending of a story is always the best part of the story, and yet there's sort of this implicit idea that the finale is somehow supposed to be the mind-blowing best episode of a show. The question is: Why is that? Why do people make that assumption?
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In politics, guts is all.
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I am more interested in fair and balanced trade between nations than I am in free trade that encumbers us in a multinational pact that is refereed by the WTO.
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I like being the lead but I like being in an ensemble. There are different challenges and dilemmas with both. If you're carrying a film, there's a certain weight, but there are a lot of scenes to explore the character. When you're in an ensemble, you have to convey the entire character in a limited number of scenes.
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I approached the problem of utility measurement in 1923 during a stay in Paris. There were three objects I had in view :
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Well, then, arrest him. You can accuse him of something or other afterward.
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The thing is, a lot of our vets come home and they feel displaced, and they don't feel like their voice matters, so for me to be a spokesman and have that honor to educate America about who we are and what we are, it's like I'm doing my job.
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
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Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.
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And why should we, of all people, expect the proud new developing nations to see the world precisely as we see it? Was any new nation ever more outspoken, independent and unaligned than the young America of Jefferson, Jackson, and Lincoln?
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The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as deeply personal as someone like Marc Maron or a lot of comedians, but they are essentially my life and my interpretation of it.
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I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa.
