Of course the Munich tragedy was the biggest event in my career and the most terrible.
From Jim McKay
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.
Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.
I think there are some very evil things about gentrification.
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.
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.
Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.
One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.
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.
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