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.

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.