MacKaye, Ian Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Riot on the Dance Floor

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen We Who Wait: The Adverts & TV Smith

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Bad Brains: A Band in DC

  2012, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Let Fury Have the Hour

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Music

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Barbershop Punk

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Bad Brains: A Band in D.C.

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Edge

  2009, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Citizen 3.0

  2008, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen I Need That Record! The Death (or Possible Survival) of the Independent Record Store

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 924 Gilman Street

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Punk's Not Dead

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself - Minor Threat, Fugazi
• Play in Full Screen Towncraft

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen American Hardcore

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Don't Need You

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself - Fugazi
• Play in Full Screen Chain

  2004, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Instrument

  2003, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Instrument

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself - Interviewee
• Play in Full Screen Dogtown and Z-Boys

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Shield Around the K

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself - Founder, Dischord Records
• Play in Full Screen The Best of Flipside Video #2

  1995, role: actor , character name: Minor Threat
• Play in Full Screen Glue Man

  1989, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Another State of Mind

  1984, role: actor , character name: Himself

Mackay, Ian Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Hitchcock

  2012, role: actor , character name: Chasen's Waiter
• Play in Full Screen Opeth's the Devil's Orchard

  2012, role: actor , character name: The Devil
• Play in Full Screen Opeth's the Devil's Orchard

  2012, role: actor , character name: Baron Orlock
• Play in Full Screen Far Out

  2007, role: actor , character name: Jesse Phoenix

Mackay, Ian Filmography

• Play in Full Screen The Last Pogo Jumps Again

  2013, role: actor , character name: The Diodes
• Play in Full Screen Circa 1977: The Diodes

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen This Beat Goes On: Canadian Pop Music in the 1970s

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself - The Diodes
• Play in Full Screen Circa 1977: The Diodes

  2009, role: composer

Famous quotes by Ian MacKaye:

"Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy."

"The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes."

"I've always been a bit of a documentarian."

"I just have work to do; I just do it."

"I've had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they're like, 'What do we do? We want to do what you do.' It's almost impossible to do what I do, because you would have to start in 1980. You can't just do it."

"When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point."

"I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it."

"My point of view is, I'm just a person, and there are times when I look at other people and think, 'My God, they spend so much time thinking about things that seem so absurd.' But I'm sure people must think the same thing about me."

"I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old."

"I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them."

"And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'"

"I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly don't have any routine. Usually the only time I practice is when the band gets together. Hendrix has always been one of my favorite players, but I was a sucker for Nugent in the late 1970's."

"I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'"

"I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow."

"My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it, and make sure it isn't abused, and obviously be thoughtful about it, because it's all real to me. I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all."

"American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up."

"When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance."

"To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale."

"I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that."

"Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it."

Ian MacKaye