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Jim McKay

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

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"I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life."

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"If imagination is your wealth, then ideas are your abode."

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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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"Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts."
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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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"I think there are some very evil things about gentrification."
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"Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification."
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"Well, this is the second time I've done New Directors."
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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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"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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