With ‘Black Sea,’ I long had an idea that I wanted to do a film about people stuck on the bottom of the ocean. I thought that was a terrifying scenario. Kevin Macdonald Read Quote
I can’t claim my grandfather’s work has influenced mine directly, but his life certainly inspired me to follow this path. Kevin Macdonald Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Put someone on a horse looking cold and wet, and they don’t have to act. They just are cold and wet. Kevin Macdonald Read Quote
I went to see ‘Francis Ha,’ which I could certainly relate to. She ends up wandering the streets of Paris all alone – something I’ve ended up doing a number of times in capital cities around Europe. Kevin Macdonald Read Quote
If there’s a principle really worth sticking up for, I’ll go the whole way. Kevin Macdonald Read Quote
When we made ‘Life in a Day,’ we asked people around the globe to record their lives on a single ordinary day. When we were cutting that film, we talked about what it might be like if we chose a day that already had significance to people. The result is ‘Christmas in a Day.’ Kevin Macdonald Read Quote
