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Of course the Munich tragedy was the biggest event in my career and the most terrible.

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

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.

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.

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

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Fun

I studied secondary education.

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Education

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

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Sports

Talk

I think there are some very evil things about gentrification.

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Evil

I was the first voice of Baltimore television in 1947.

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.

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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Class

Kids

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

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Being

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

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.

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Actors

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

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Want