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August 02, 2006
Touching the doc: Kevin Macdonald on interviewing
One Day in September and Touching the Voice director Kevin Macdonald talks to the Times of London about what makes great documentaries: "[T]here are often things that are provided by chance, gifts from the heavens. It’s about hovering between imposing your vision and accepting what you’re given... There are interviewers who arrive with every question laid out, and those who just let the person talk. I’m the second type: I prefer people to reveal their character through talking about what they choose to talk about. I see the interview process as like psychoanalysis, and the camera is the catalyst to get them to say things they wouldn’t otherwise [say]."
Posted by Ray Pride at August 2, 2006 07:28 PM
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