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Jim McKay
September 24, 1921 -
Nationality: American
Category: Journalist
Subcategory: American Journalist

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.

   

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

   

I was the first voice of Baltimore television in 1947.

   

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.

   

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

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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