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Jim McKay

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

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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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"And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment."

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"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

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"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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"The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies."

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"When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don't look at it."

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"I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience."

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"For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English."

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"Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume."

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"Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in."

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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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"Kids who have no money are still figuring out a way - somehow - to dress nicely."
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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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