Jim McKay

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“I think there are some very evil things about gentrification.”

“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.”

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

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