37 Quotes by David Mackenzie

My hands were tied in terms of going to Ireland for half the shoot because of budget considerations by the producers.

Dr Edwards has been the catalyst for key conservation milestones in WA. If not for Dr Edwards's tenacity, the nature of WA would be worse off and our state a poorer place to live.

That's just the name of the company of our unit nurse in the English scenes of the shoot.

There is no way this exercise makes us feel safer or happier about weapons of mass destruction travelling on our roads. However much you practice for eventualities the brute fact remains that transporting plutonium alongside high explosive is simply madness. This government is determined to take any risks to maintain its genocidal nuclear weapons.

Somehow, the process of making movies conventionally can dampen creativity because you've got to wait in line to do everything the way it's supposed to be, particularly with actors who are just hanging out waiting for the call.

Edinburgh is a sort of gothic fairytale city, and it can be a gothic horror city as well.

I don't have continuity people. I don't have clapper boards. I don't have monitors. I shoot very fast, I shoot a lot, and we just keep on going.

When I started making films, all the theaters, the screen would slide open the widest possible point, and that would be widescreen. But now, theaters are geared up for around 16:9, so scope is now 'letterboxed.' In a way, if you want the big picture, you shoot 16:9.

'Perfect Sense' is a film about love and catastrophe, which I hope is a powerfully romantic and emotional take on the apocalyptic sub-genre. Its aim is to be a minimalist concept movie - where seismic events occur in simple ways that ask the audience to use their imagination.