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When you make a movie, you don't know how it'll turn out. You can only guess.

~David Mackenzie

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Movies tend to be dislocated and non-linear in their process.

~David Mackenzie

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I think we go to our graves being a bit weird.

~David Mackenzie

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I'm an international director.

~David Mackenzie

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I'm definitely going to continue to make films in Scotland, but that doesn't mean it will be exclusively there, and I don't have any particular need to wave a flag.

~David Mackenzie

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I don't have continuity people. I don't have clapper boards. I don't have monitors. I shoot very fast, I shoot a lot, and we just keep on going.

~David Mackenzie

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All my films are, in some way, romances. But I've always felt that the best romances are somehow doomed.

~David Mackenzie

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'Perfect Sense' is a film about love and catastrophe, which I hope is a powerfully romantic and emotional take on the apocalyptic sub-genre. Its aim is to be a minimalist concept movie - where seismic events occur in simple ways that ask the audience to use their imagination.

~David Mackenzie

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Food scenes in movies are traditionally nightmares to shoot - you just can't fake eating, and you usually have to repeat it a lot of times to get the angles you need. It's actually quite a lot to ask of actors, and there's really nowhere to hide.

~David Mackenzie

Topics: Actor Actually Angles Ask Eating Fake Food Get Hide Just Lot Movies Need Nightmares Nowhere Quite Quite A Lot Really Repeat Scenes Shoot Times You

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'Perfect Sense' is an extremely serious film, and I am an extremely serious film-maker who is trying to explore the medium in original and interesting ways.

~David Mackenzie

Topics: Am Explore Extremely Film Interesting Medium Original Perfect Sense Serious Trying Ways Who I Am

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Director

Born: May 10th, 1966

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