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Jim McKay

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

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

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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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"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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"One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that."
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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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"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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"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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"Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts."
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