“I like the energy of doing things fast. We shot 'Starred Up' in just f...” — David MacKenzie Quote

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

“Filmmaking is hard. I mean, it's not that hard, but it is hard to find your way through a system because there's a lot of people, there's money, there's a big machine to kind of make it - and how to find methods and processes that allow it to continue to be a lively process and a creative process.”

“'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.”

“I've been trying to be the model that I wanted to see when I was a teenager, looking through magazines and not seeing myself, looking at pictures that were so edited.”

“It's also important to remember that so much of what's on social media is fake or edited and, while it may look like a party, it's a business.”

“I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors.”