Jim McKay quotes:

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I was the first voice of Baltimore television in 1947.

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

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

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

I think there are some very evil things about gentrification.

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.

I studied secondary education.

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.

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.