Kevin Macdonald Quotes

For me, what works well about 'Life in a Day' is that it's emotionally affecting without being manipulative. It really does make you think about the connectivity of the world, the similarities and differences. It shows the experiences we all go through: birth, childhood, falling in love, having kids, getting ill, dying.

Kevin Macdonald

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• I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Looking
  • Against
  • Phone

• I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Roles
  • Films
  • Image

• I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Time
  • Feel
  • First Time

• Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Friends
  • Father

• Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Film
  • Television

• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Insult
  • Okay
  • Principal

• I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Life
  • World
  • Want

• If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Moving Forward

• I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Work
  • Change
  • Consciousness

• People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Story
  • Cinderella

• I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Hate
  • Travel
  • Go

• You have to relish the challenge of television.

  

  Laura Linney
  • You
  • Challenge
  • Television

• My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Friend
  • Boy
  • Thought

• In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Great
  • Writing
  • School

• Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Reason
  • Feelings
  • Mankind

• Just as I try to find ways to be more productive every year for myself, I also look for tips to pass on to young professionals.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Myself
  • Look
  • Year

• In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • American
  • Mother
  • Television

• The biscuit tin shouldn't be handy - move it about a bit. Try to keep it out of the way.

  

  Mary Berry

• We're exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that regard.

  

  Win Butler
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Powerful

• I think we have a rawer version of capitalism and a more fragile community and family base than other nations. We are a more individualistic culture. From the Boston Tea Party on, we've had too little faith in government.

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Faith

• World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world." Have you any?" enquired the Scarecrow. No, my head is quite empty," answered the Woodman; "but once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • World
  • Heart
  • Brain

• For me, what works well about 'Life in a Day' is that it's emotionally affecting without being manipulative. It really does make you think about the connectivity of the world, the similarities and differences. It shows the experiences we all go through: birth, childhood, falling in love, having kids, getting ill, dying.

  

  Kevin Macdonald
  • Life
  • World
  • Kids