John Lennon made wonderful music, which people listen to as music. Nobody around the world is living their life according to the precepts of John Lennon. Kevin Macdonald Read Quote
I think everything that I’ve done, I’ve been involved with for longer. Either you develop it from scratch, or you take something, and you develop it, and you work on the script, but I’m not sure how good I’d be at just sort of taking a piece of material and being a director for hire like that. Kevin Macdonald Read Quote
It’s always nice to have the same people that you are familiar with and shorthand with, obviously, to be around you. Kevin Macdonald Read Quote
I used the same designer and costume designer on ‘The Eagle’ and ‘The Last King of Scotland.’ Kevin Macdonald Read Quote
Uprising’ was one of the first three or four albums I ever bought in 1980 when I was 13, and that had a strong impact on me. Kevin Macdonald Read Quote
I was fascinated by making a submarine movie, inspired by the Kursk disaster. This idea of being trapped down at the bottom of the sea seemed so terrifying. I was very interested in making a sub film which wasn’t a military film. You think, Well, why are they there, then, if they’re not in the military? Oh, well, they must be looking for treasure. Kevin Macdonald Read Quote
I think we’re all greedy. Who do you know who says, ‘I have enough! I don’t need any more!’? It’s part of human nature. Kevin Macdonald Read Quote
With fiction, I’ve grown to really love the challenge of lying, the challenge of telling a good tale that isn’t truthful, and working with performers is endlessly fascinating. You know, learning what a good performance is, how to get a good performance, how much or how little you need to create emotion or to create character. Kevin Macdonald Read Quote
There’s something about the lack of certainty with a documentary, which is exhausting if you do three in a row. It’s nerve-wracking. Kevin Macdonald Read Quote
