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 idea that I am cynical because I'm writing the books that I write is a bit like someone saying, 'What, you've done a second album? Oh, I see, cashing in on your first album, are you?' But I'm a musician! It's sort of what I do.
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And what about sin’s power? If Christ has “died for our sin,” and sin’s greatest power is death, then what is the necessary expression that Christ has conquered the power of sin completely and decisively? He must rise from the dead. If he remains in a grave dead, then sin’s power is greater than his, and rather than conquering sin, he is subject to it and its hold on him. The only way to show that the power of sin is conquered completely is that Christ was raised from the dead. This shows that Christ’s power is greater than the greatest power sin has. Christ’s resurrection demonstrates that Christ has completely, decisively, and once for all triumphed over sin and its greatest power!
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Winning isn't everything to me, but it's a close second. Losing isn't something that I can just brush off and fake a smile to hide my frustration. It's that will and determination that I hope will get me where I want to go.
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I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.
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Every time an idiot dies, your IQ goes down.
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I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa.
