100 Quotes by Kevin Macdonald

There were many times during the filming of 'Touching the Void' when I wondered why I had ever thought I wanted to make this film.

The things that are hardest to shoot are the things where you want people just to feel very natural, and you want to do love scenes, and you want to do just kids hanging out and trying to get them to relax.

I recommend to any of you, that's always a good way to make a film: use the interesting bits.

In film, I believe things should either be documentary or drama.

If there is a tendency in modern television I hate, it is the unstoppable march of the dramatic reconstruction to tell the stories of anything from an ancient Egyptian battle to the early life of Paul Gascoigne.

'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.

The great thing about making a film on a submarine is that it's kind of like making a play. You've got this limited environment.

Everyone's got to make one submarine drama in their life.

The amazing thing about Bob Marley is that there is no moving footage of him at all for the first ten or eleven years of his career. From 1962 to 1973, there's nothing, not a single frame.