Kevin Macdonald Quotes

When you know someone, and you get to work with them, automatically there is this comfort zone which comes in.

Acting with people whom you know is like being with the family. It is a comfortable ground.

There's a bizarre comfort and safety in doing your last and most intimate scenes with the actor you've worked most closely.

People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.

I usually only play with very close friends.

When you're feeling very comfortable with an actor, you are doing nothing.

My husband and I have known each other since kindergarten. I had a crush on him in school, but we never dated. Then we saw each other again after high school, and there was something instantly familiar about him. I'm a very shy person and was very closed off. But he allowed me to be myself. And there's a safety in that.

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.

I'm happiest when I'm with people who have known me for years.

I have some kind of knack for getting to know or becoming very close with people I've long admired.

I hang around a core group of people, a small group of people. They've been around me for a long time. They know my personality. They know me in and out, same as my family.

A lot of making a movie is the comfort level of the people. It's just feeling open. We need to get along. We have to know something about each other.

When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later.

Most of the friends you trust are those you've known for 10 years.

You never know really what anyone thinks about you - that's why all my closest friends are ones I've had since my schooling days when I was 5. And I surround myself with people who I trust and who know me.

I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.

People feel like they grew up with me.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

My good friends call me Bobby.

I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.

Old friends are best.

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.

How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to.