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I find it really difficult when you make a movie where it is set in Russia and everyone speaks in English. It drives me crazy.
Kevin Macdonald
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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.
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People who die in an untimely way who are artists, somehow that validates their art, we feel. Why culturally we feel that, I don't know.
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No man, no woman is without their flaws.
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You can relate to someone with a flaw.
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What got me into making movies was that I wanted to be a journalist.
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I love submarine movies.
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I love Humphrey Jennings. People ask me who my favorite documentary maker is, and he's certainly in the top three.
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A publisher friend of mine suggested that I write a book about my grandfather, who had just died. I had nothing else to fill my empty days with, so I started work on this book. While researching it - watching lots of movies, talking to moviemakers - I became interested in movies and started making documentaries.
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The interesting thing to me is that somehow the future of movies will become a more social thing... I think that people will see them communally and will be talking about them as they're watching them, in a way, and immediately after watching them, and they'll all become the conversation. I think that's pretty interesting.
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'State of Play' is a romantic story at its heart.
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Sometimes people give away more by not saying something.
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