American - Journalist | September 24, 1921 - June 7, 2008
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.
Jim McKay
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Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.
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I think there are some very evil things about gentrification.
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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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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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I studied secondary education.
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Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.
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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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Kids who have no money are still figuring out a way - somehow - to dress nicely.
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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.
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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.
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