Scottish - Director | May 10, 1966 -
As I get older, I'm looking more and more for films that are actually about something rather than just narrative vehicles.
David MacKenzie
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I travel light as a director. I don't have monitors on my set.
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I used to regard genres as being embedded in cliches, and I always felt funny about the need we have to label things. But I'm happy to think of 'Starred Up' as a prison drama, although we tried to smuggle in some elements of family drama in there.
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Event cinema is what it is, and I understand why it's successful. It started with things like 'Jaws,' which are extraordinary movies. But what we've lost are great character films which are beautifully directed and had great movie stars in them. Films that were about something rather than about spectacle.
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Filmmaking is hard. I mean, it's not that hard, but it is hard to find your way through a system because there's a lot of people, there's money, there's a big machine to kind of make it - and how to find methods and processes that allow it to continue to be a lively process and a creative process.
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Most of the films I've tried to make I've ended up making. And they don't necessarily go in the order you want to do. So I haven't got a huge list of undone films or stuff that's just been abandoned forever.
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When you make a movie, you don't know how it'll turn out. You can only guess.
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Movies tend to be dislocated and non-linear in their process.
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I like the idea of the audience absorbing the language and getting to understand it as they journey through the film. It starts off being more obscure, but you get used to it. A 'Clockwork Orange' thing. I read 'Clockwork Orange' without any vocabulary, and I got to understand the words as I went through it. I like that process. It immerses you.
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I think we go to our graves being a bit weird.
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Edinburgh is a sort of gothic fairytale city, and it can be a gothic horror city as well.
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I'm an international director.
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