Kevin Macdonald Quotes
I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa.
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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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Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.
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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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The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates.
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Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was - there's no doubt about it. There's never been anybody since. He's one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
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The only thing that takes away from it is when they steal some music from one of my movies and put it in a TV commercial. I am not crazy about influencing TV commercials. But if I legitimately influence someone making a movie, I think that is really flattering.
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It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.
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I lived in Vancouver, where they film so many things. So it gave me a good shot at 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.
