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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Almost anything can be funny if said the right way - but it has to be said the right way.
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One always pulls the trigger out of self-interest and quotes history to avoid responsibility or pangs of conscience.
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Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he is sure always to count as one of the great personalities of philosophy. From our perspective it is easy to mistake one for the other; which he is time will tell.
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This over-consumption is also manifest in our use of raw materials. It can even be found in our dietary habits... . People are well aware of this. The root of the problem lies in a selfish world view which inflates personal consumption beyond the essential.
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With families, no matter what kind you inherit, at some point you want to announce that you belong to 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.
