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Despite the limitations of the bulky 16mm camera and 10-minute film magazines, 'The Anderson Platoon' feels as spontaneous and fresh as any films that have come out of the Afghan or Iraq wars.
- Kevin Macdonald
#Camera
#Come
#Film
#Fresh
#Spontaneous
Although 'The Anderson Platoon' was what we would now call an 'embedded film' - with all the ambiguities that term implies - somehow Schoendoerffer got away with showing things as they really were from a grunt's perspective.
- Kevin Macdonald
#Call
#Film
#Now
#Perspective
#Things
The first documentary I saw that tried to show the actual experience of being a soldier in combat was 'The Anderson Platoon,' by French director Pierre Schoendoerffer, which won the Oscar for best documentary in 1967.
- Kevin Macdonald
#Best
#Documentary
#Experience
#Soldier
We're all fascinated by the way other people live their lives, how they cope with hardship and triumph, what they put in their home movies and family albums.
- Kevin Macdonald
#Family
#Home
#Live
#Movies
#Way
The tradition has always been that in Roman films, the Romans are always British, and it's usually posh British: Laurence Olivier and his ilk. My take on all this was that it's a metaphor for empire and the end of empire.
- Kevin Macdonald
#Always
#End
#Posh
#Take
#Tradition
Like a lot of expatriate Scots, when you want to be called Scottish, it's useful. I see myself as being without nationality, as a European: my region is Scotland; my nationality is European - isn't that a very Alex Salmond thing to say?
- Kevin Macdonald
#I See
#Myself
#Say
#See
#Want
It feels like we're all so familiar now with the traditional three-act structure that, actually, stories that are more complex, more naughty, that allow for disagreement and discussion, are more interesting to us.
- Kevin Macdonald
#Discussion
#More
#Naughty
#Now
#Us
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
#Black
#Film
#Long
#People
#Sea
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
#Enough
#Human Nature
#Know
#Nature
#Need
It's interesting to me that the Arab Spring started in Tunisia, and in the marches, people were singing 'Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.'
- Kevin Macdonald
#Me
#People
#Singing
#Stand Up
#Stand
I suppose that the Western has always been a kind of mold to which you could pour the concerns of the day, but have them seen in the simple terms of the Western, of one alley or whatever.
- Kevin Macdonald
#Alley
#Always
#Day
#Simple
#Whatever
I always loved digging away at the story, trying to find out things that people don't want you to find out and piecing it all together. I love the treasure hunt aspect of it, the thrill of the chase.
- Kevin Macdonald
#Find
#Love
#People
#Together
#Trying
If you go to pretty much everywhere in the developing world, you will find Bob Marley murals, and you'll find people playing his music.
- Kevin Macdonald
#Find
#Music
#People
#Will
#World
It's obviously presumptuous in some ways to talk about somebody's sexuality who's not here to describe themselves.
- Kevin Macdonald
#About
#Here
#Sexuality
#Somebody
#Talk
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
#Christmas
#Day
#Life
#People
#Result
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