Jim McKay Quotations

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.

Neither team really executed well tonight, but both sides played good defense. We just didn't execute well and it seemed like we got out of sync with doing the things we've done up to this point. I think some of that was nerves tonight.

On one level, I enjoyed the irony of the situation: a girl who's from a Cuban or Puerto Rican household who's been discouraged from speaking Spanish.

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

I was going to be an English teacher.

I guess I didn't worry too much about the six runs I gave up. I tried to redeem myself with those two home runs.

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.

Chris is one of the friendliest, nicest people you would meet anywhere. He likes people. He loves people. He's very forgiving about people even if anything happens in a bad way.

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.

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

Halftime Highlights. It was a milestone in TV sports coverage.

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

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

It boggles my mind, ... Nobody thought it would get that high.

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

I think there are some very evil things about gentrification.

Jamie Morgan had a great shooting game tonight. She was 3-for-3 on 3-pointers. It really seems like she was on. Every time Pine River would start to rally, she'd come up with a big three to shut it down.

I was the first voice of Baltimore television in 1947.

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

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

We've done it four or five times already this year, so we knew we could come back easy. It was only a six-run game.

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.

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.

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

This thing that Colin Powell's son is expected to do is kind of scary when you think that television and radio and newspapers are what make people think what they think.

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

And when I take him down there tonight, ... I'm 12 years old, if I'm honest about it.

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.

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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.

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

It is that time of year when players are concerned about their future. And that is a bit of distraction, but that is not a reason or excuse. Some are playing for new contracts and it is just a tricky time of year.

It's a heavily used trail. It could use some lay time.

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.

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

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.

Identity is a huge issue for kids, We all need a firm sense of identity.

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.