Best quotes by Kevin Macdonald on People

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• ‟ As a filmmaker, I'm interminably curious and nosy, but certain times you meet people and think, 'I don't want to push you too hard because I can see this is painful for you.'

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• ‟ People who die in an untimely way who are artists, somehow that validates their art, we feel. Why culturally we feel that, I don't know.

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• ‟ I love Humphrey Jennings. People ask me who my favorite documentary maker is, and he's certainly in the top three.

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• ‟ Sometimes people give away more by not saying something.

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• ‟ If you want to do 'Sword & Sandals' movies, people think that means it equals 'epic.'

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• ‟ You can get good performances in quite sizable roles from people who have never been in front of a camera, people who maybe have never been in front of a movie theater.

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• ‟ In some ways, making documentaries is like being a journalist. You interview people and then use the bits you want to use as opposed to the bits they want you to use.

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• ‟ People listen to The Beatles, but while they were muscially influential, they weren't culturally influential in quite the same way. You can go into the back of beyond in a little Indian village, and they will listen to Bob Marley. But they're not going to be listening to The Beatles or The Rolling Stones.

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• ‟ Young people read their news online; they expect to get their news for free.

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• ‟ The Internet has meant that advertising has migrated; there are hardly any classifieds in newspapers any more because they're all online. If people have a car to sell, for example, they sell it online; they don't go to the newspaper.

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• ‟ Documentary makers use other people's lives as their raw material, and that is morally indefensible.

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