“I find it really difficult when you make a movie where it is set in Ru...” — Kevin Macdonald Quote

“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.”

“Most people in Uganda have something good to say about Amin - 'He was funny; he gave us pride to be African.'”

“The things that are hardest to shoot are the things where you want people just to feel very natural, and you want to do love scenes, and you want to do just kids hanging out and trying to get them to relax.”

“In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on.”

“Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.”

“I don't think of my characters as bumbling. I think that trouble is what drives a novel, both big troubles and small troubles, and whatever people try to do in life, there are a series of stumbling-blocks in the way, and I think that makes for interesting reading. I think of them as doing their best with the roadblocks that they're given.”