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Jim McKay

Jim McKay

American Journalist

Born: Sep 24, 1921

Died: Jun 7, 2008

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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 makes things exciting - I am having fun with that stuff, but you have to manage it so it doesn't get too cute, that's what I trying to work toward. Jim McKay

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I think there are some very evil things about gentrification. Jim McKay

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Of course the Munich tragedy was the biggest event in my career and the most terrible. Jim McKay

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Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification. Jim McKay

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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 being paid to make films, after eight years. Jim McKay

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I studied secondary education. Jim McKay

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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 in terms of their peer group. Jim McKay

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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 feel good about yourself and want to be an actor. Jim McKay

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On one hand, as a filmmaker, I don't want to make a movie with guns everywhere. Jim McKay

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I like the way Wiseman builds a story in an unconventional way. Jim McKay

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I was the first voice of Baltimore television in 1947. Jim McKay

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Dick Enberg is still around and still being as good as he ever was. Jim McKay

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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 had collected and assigned them to characters who would be played by actors. Jim McKay

Well, this is the second time I've done New Directors. Jim McKay

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When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there's no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it. Jim McKay

There are a lot of people who like to think they don't have prejudices and that they're open people, and yet, we all have that in ourselves, oftentimes against people of our own race or our own gender or whatever. Jim McKay

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