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Edinburgh is a sort of gothic fairytale city, and it can be a gothic horror city as well.

~David Mackenzie

Topics: City Edinburgh Fairytale Gothic Horror Sort Well

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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.

~David Mackenzie

Topics: Absorb Any Audience Being Clockwork Film Get Getting Got Idea Journey Language Like More Obscure Off Orange Process Read Starts Thing Through Understand Used Vocabulary Without Words You

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When I started making films, all the theaters, the screen would slide open the widest possible point, and that would be widescreen. But now, theaters are geared up for around 16:9, so scope is now 'letterboxed.' In a way, if you want the big picture, you shoot 16:9.

~David Mackenzie

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I sort of feel like my job is to be a conduit to opportunities, to maximize the creativity of the day itself - because that's when the cameras are running. That's the important thing to me. Some of these shots you need to think about in advance; you need to have some ideas for them.

~David Mackenzie

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As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution.

~David Mackenzie

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I like the energy of doing things fast. We shot 'Starred Up' in just four weeks, and we edited it in four weeks.

~David Mackenzie

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I very rarely read a script that I don't feel I want to change a lot.

~David Mackenzie

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Signature film-making seems rather dull to me; it's about finding something you can do something with and running with the ball.

~David Mackenzie

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A lot of cinema is about the game of authenticity - do you feel it's real?

~David Mackenzie

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As a director, when you embrace a project, you try to understand as much as you can about its world, and you do that by embracing and engaging with people who are in that world. Then it's down to your best instincts, which is what most directing is about anyway.

~David Mackenzie

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Director

Born: May 10th, 1966

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