How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.
people
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.
genderpeoplerace
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.
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.
doubtpeopletso-artwork
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.
funtso-lifework
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.
chancemoney
Kids who have no money are still figuring out a way - somehow - to dress nicely.
money
Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.
moviestheend
Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.
change
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.
thetimestimetso-sports
Well, this is the second time I've done New Directors.
thetimestime
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.
cleanexperienceplaces
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.
character
I still haven't figured out how to have fun on a shoot.
fun
On one hand, as a filmmaker, I don't want to make a movie with guns everywhere.
movies