Quotes by Jim Mckay - Page 1

I studied secondary education.
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Education
Secondary Education
Studied
Secondary
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I still haven't figured out how to have fun on a shoot.
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Figured
Have Fun
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One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.
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Movie
One Day
Day One Day Everything
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I like the way Wiseman builds a story in an unconventional way.
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Unconventional
Builds
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How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.
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Adult
Yourself People Young
Alike
Define
Major
Issue
Young People
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On one hand, as a filmmaker, I don't want to make a movie with guns everywhere.
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Movie
Filmmaker
Everywhere
Guns
Hand
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Kids who have no money are still figuring out a way - somehow - to dress nicely.
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Figuring
Nicely
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Of course the Munich tragedy was the biggest event in my career and the most terrible.
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Terrible
Tragedy
Event
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Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.
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Confront
Opinions
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Kids - in a really good way - can talk about their differences without the baggage that adults have.
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Baggage
Differences
Good Way
Adult
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I think Bob Costas is terrific. He's so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports.
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Terrific
Subject
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Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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Massachusetts
Movie Theater
Theater
Toward
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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.
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Be Grateful
Eight
Grateful
Paid
Finally
Gotten
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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.
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Clean
Jeans
Sneakers
Interested
Economically
Wearing
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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 in any sport that I can think of.
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Gold
Medal
Upset
Time Me Gold
Beating
College Kids
Sport
Gold Medal
Olympic
Olympic Gold
Olympic Gold Medal
Soviets
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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.
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Expected
Newspapers
Radio
Scary
Son
Colin
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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.
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Bottom
Class
Looks
Outsiders
Peer Group
Social
Also
Background
Due
Group
Initially
Ladder
Peer
Terms
Rung
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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.
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Cool
Attractive
Feel Good
Actor
Chances
Hip
Necessarily
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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.
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Assigned
Collected
Fictitious
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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.
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People Gender Race
Oftentimes
Prejudices
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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.
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Doubt
Honing
No Doubt
Lots
Craft
Foremost
Work Art People
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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.
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Cute
Everyday
Everyday Life
Fooled
Having Fun
Manage
Life Work I Am
Life Work Fun
Assumptions
Toward
Tripped
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