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" 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. "
Interesting
Story
Own
" Dick Enberg is still around and still being as good as he ever was. "
He
Around
Being
" 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. "
Time
Think
Me
" How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike. "
You
Alike
How
" 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. "
Life
Cute
I Am
" 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. "
Feel Good
Money
Yourself
" I like the way Wiseman builds a story in an unconventional way. "
Story
Unconventional
Way
" 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. "
Class
Group
Background
" I still haven't figured out how to have fun on a shoot. "
How
Have Fun
Fun
" I studied secondary education. "
Secondary
Studied
Education
" I think Bob Costas is terrific. He's so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports. "
Talk
Think
Sports
" I think there are some very evil things about gentrification. "
Very
I Think
Some
" I was the first voice of Baltimore television in 1947. "
Baltimore
Voice
Television
" Kids - in a really good way - can talk about their differences without the baggage that adults have. "
Differences
Good
Talk
" Kids who have no money are still figuring out a way - somehow - to dress nicely. "
Still
Way
Money
" Of course the Munich tragedy was the biggest event in my career and the most terrible. "
Most
Tragedy
Career
" One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that. "
Idea
One Day
Everything
" On one hand, as a filmmaker, I don't want to make a movie with guns everywhere. "
Everywhere
Hand
Movie
" 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 Am
Grateful
Be Grateful
" 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. "
Sneakers
You
Place
" 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. "
Think
Race
People
" 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. "
Think
You
Television
" Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts. "
Watching
Job
Movies
" Well, this is the second time I've done New Directors. "
Directors
Well
New
" 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. "
Work
Art
Doubt
" Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification. "
Me
Change
Film
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