Jim McKay Quotes

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

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.

Well, this is the second time I’ve done New Directors.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

 

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.

 

I was the first voice of Baltimore television in 1947.

I think there are some very evil things about gentrification.

I think Bob Costas is terrific. He’s so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports.

I studied secondary education.

I still haven’t figured out how to have fun on a shoot.