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The submarine genre is a category with all its own rules. But shooting on water is famously tough.
Kevin Macdonald
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In war films, even more than in other kinds of documentary, we've come to think that shaky, poor-quality footage is somehow more authentic than something classically 'well shot.'
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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.
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In film, I believe things should either be documentary or drama.
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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.
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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.
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Everyone's got to make one submarine drama in their life.
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