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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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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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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Oh, happy Perthday!
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As a songwriter, I got used to being in the background.
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Only God knows why I didn't make it with the Mets, but yes, in a short period of time, I got the opportunity with the Phillies.
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The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.
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Evidence from mobile devices has provided critical help in solving crimes ranging from homicides to drug trafficking.
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You never see a child die from education on TV. But make no mistake about it: children die from lack of education all the time. Children without an education are more likely to grow up to have HIV/AIDS. They're more likely to die in infancy or before the age of five.
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Design is a very personal thing. It's like art. Your personal choice plays a big role.
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I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa.
