Kevin Macdonald Quotes

People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries.

Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.

I'm a journalist, and I'm a filmmaker. I have an organization that's all about telling stories.

I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a documentary. I think it would be interesting to find one person that really fascinated me or maybe a band and travel with them, but I don't think I could do it like I used to do it.

I've always been a bit of a documentarian.

I'm a documentary filmmaker, I know what it means to craft a story, especially when you've shot a lot of material.

What got me into making movies was that I wanted to be a journalist.

The making of the documentary is an involving and collaborative process where you go deeper unlike in movies where you just borrow someone else's script.

For someone like me, making a documentary - I don't kid myself. There's no influence at all. What I do is entertainment. I would even say much the same about the column I write in 'The Sunday Times.'

I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I had trouble finishing things.

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

If I wanted to make something that actually made a difference roughly in this industry, I would make a documentary. That would be the closest I could come to actually try and make a difference.

Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.

I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.

If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.

I have a great little camera, and I had a theory that if the story is interesting, it doesn't matter what medium you shoot it on. You just have to make a good film.

Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.

I'm not one of those people who sees documentaries as a stepping stone to doing fiction. I love documentaries and watch tons of documentaries. But, I like fiction films a lot, too.

It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

I came from a background of directing behind-the-scenes documentaries.