Jim McKay Quotes

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• Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.
• I think there are some very evil things about gentrification.
• Right now the thing that I have learned the most is to be grateful that I have finally gotten to a point where I am…
• I studied secondary education.
• Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.
• One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.
• Kids who have no money are still figuring out a way - somehow - to dress nicely.
• How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.
• Kids - in a really good way - can talk about their differences without the baggage that adults have.
• I like the way Wiseman builds a story in an unconventional way.
• I was the first voice of Baltimore television in 1947.
• Of course the Munich tragedy was the biggest event in my career and the most terrible.
• Dick Enberg is still around and still being as good as he ever was.
• But what I did think would be interesting is if we created a fictitious story of our own, and then took these stories that we…
• Here were these college kids beating the Soviets and going on to the Olympic Gold Medal. To me, that's the greatest upset of all time…
• I am playing with the assumptions that we have in our everyday life when we are tripped up or fooled and we learn something, that…
• I still haven't figured out how to have fun on a shoot.
• I think Bob Costas is terrific. He's so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports.
• If you're a kid who's not necessarily attractive, and you don't have money, and you're not hip and cool, chances are you're not going to…
• Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders…

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