"That's the moment I wanted to begin the film which is, Paul is just suddenly at a loss to know anything about himself: 'Who am I if I'm not a Beatle?' Even though they were living this rural farmer's life in Scotland, they sure took a lot of photos and footage of it. And the texture of that life was just amazing to see what they created, and live in that world."
"He's running away from [The Beatles'] shadow. That's why I call the film Man on the Run. In a way, Paul making this documentary was a way of [his] coming to terms with that whole period, because I think he had buried a lot of his feelings about this period, just because they were painful."
"Between 1970 and 1980, he puts out 10 records in 10 years. But on top of that, he's doing all kinds of side projects. He is somebody who needs to be doing something. I asked him about it. I said, 'Are you a workaholic?' And what he said to me is, 'Well, you don't work music. You play it.'"
Following The Beatles' breakup in 1969, Paul McCartney faced an identity crisis at age 27, uncertain of who he was outside the band that defined him since adolescence. Filmmaker Morgan Neville's documentary "Man on the Run" explores McCartney's transformative decade between the breakup and John Lennon's 1980 murder. The film features previously unseen archival footage shot by Linda McCartney at their remote Scottish farmhouse, documenting their rural family life. McCartney formed Wings and released ten records in ten years while pursuing various side projects, consciously avoiding Beatles-style music. Neville suggests McCartney was running from The Beatles' shadow, and creating the documentary helped him process painful emotions he had previously buried about this formative period.
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