I find most American films annoy me because their third act tends to be tying up loose ends and returning to moral values and killing the monster. I …

- David Mackenzie

I'm really glad Westerns have had a revival. Hopefully our little resurgence will last a while.

- David Mackenzie

People start realising that I'm a responsible filmmaker and I'm not going to run away with the budget or do anything stupid. I think it probably depe…

- David Mackenzie

The way I generally work is that I do try to leave as many decisions as I possibly can to the day of, because it feels like that's where you're most …

- David Mackenzie

As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution.

- David Mackenzie

I think that's my approach: If it feels right for a scene to be whole, to hold on without cutting for a long time, then that's great. But other scene…

- David Mackenzie

America is a country of comparatively recent immigrants, so I'm part of a line there and the old Americans were thrown off their land by the new Amer…

- David Mackenzie

The problem with the British film industry is that it's really the American film industry, or a small branch of in lots of ways because of the common…

- David Mackenzie

I don't have any interest in doing superhero franchise movies. I don't connect to the fantastic and I'm not a comic person, it's just not my thing, s…

- David Mackenzie