Kevin Macdonald Quotes

What got me into making movies was that I wanted to be a journalist.

Kevin Macdonald

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• This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Play

• Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Business

• I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Want
  • Choice
  • Options

• As with any moderately famous person, footballers are the source of much gossip. In fact, I'd go as far as to say they are targeted. The fun part as their partner is not knowing who, or what, to believe.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Believe
  • Fun
  • Famous

• In 'Haraamkhor,' I have explored a few things which I wouldn't have been able to do in bigger films. The process of shooting this film was so organic that it enhanced me as an actor and an artiste.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Actor
  • Process
  • Films

• Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Dance
  • Exercise
  • Active

• It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Popular

• When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Violence
  • Movies
  • See

• A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Challenge

• I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Think
  • Famous
  • Paris

• In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Eyes
  • Wonder
  • Better

• The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • War
  • History
  • Sea

• The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Happy

• These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Me
  • Learn
  • Sincerity

• I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Hope
  • Drama
  • Hollywood

• My mom does mine because I know I would go tweezer-crazy and wind up with no eyebrows at all.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Up
  • Know
  • Mom

• I have no television - I hate it.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Hate
  • Television

• Asian-Americans are still regarded as 'other' by many of their fellow-citizens.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Still
  • Many
  • Other

• 'Oh, nobody would ever want to know me in Hollywood. I’m far too puffin-faced for that, too weird-looking. No, I think I’ll probably stick to telly, if telly’ll have me, though I wouldn’t mind doing radio plays as well.'

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Mind
  • Weird

• I have always dealt with economic forces, rather than philosophic forces, but you can't split history into neat little non-overlapping divisions. For instance, religions tend to accumulate wealth when successful and that eventually tends to distort the economic development of a society.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • History
  • Society

• If somebody gives you his money, definitely he will be interested in knowing how you spend the money.

  

  Jakaya Kikwete
  • Money

• 'Sally' is just a song that I wrote talking to my alter ego. When I write, I don't really consciously say, 'This is what I've been going through in my life, and I'm gonna put this into words.' It's just a song that I kinda went in and did. Then, listening back to it, I realized, 'I'm talking to myself.'

  

  Bibi Bourelly
  • Life
  • Song
  • Words

• Nothing surprises me when it comes to people in the entertainment business.

  

  Adam Goldberg
  • People
  • Business
  • Me

• What got me into making movies was that I wanted to be a journalist.

  

  Kevin Macdonald