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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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"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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