Jim McKay

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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Kids - in a really good way - can talk about their differences without the baggage that adults have. ↗

— Jim McKay

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Kids who have no money are still figuring out a way - somehow - to dress nicely. ↗

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

— Jim McKay

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One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that. ↗

— 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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So, when you see a kid with ratty jeans on, wearing sneakers that aren't clean, you know they're in a certain place economically. I was interested in that experience. ↗

— Jim McKay

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This thing that Colin Powell's son is expected to do is kind of scary when you think that television and radio and newspapers are what make people think what they think. ↗

— Jim McKay

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Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts. ↗

— Jim McKay

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