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Alexander Mackendrick
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Nationality is a very curious thing. The blood is Scots and the temperament is Scots, but I am in fact 100% American.
The best way to learn how to work with actors is to have had experience of trying to act yourself--it will teach you humility if nothing else.
There's a moment towards the end of certain kinds of comedy when they ought to get a little nasty.
Children are often better actors than adults, because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation.
Sometimes hysteria in production problems can be communicated successfully as energy up on the screen.
Movies are an incidental byproduct of deals.
The great directors managed to dissolve and disappear into the work. They make other people look good.
[on
Whisky Galore! (1949)
] It looks like a home-movie; it doesn't look as if it was made by a professional at all. And it wasn't.
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