McG

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biography of Mc

Joseph McGinty Nichol
9 August 1968, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
6' 2"

- Fast cars.

- B.A. (Psychology) University of California-Irvine.

- Won Billboard's Pop Video of the Year Award for Smashmouth's Walking on the Sun (1997).

- Won Pop Video of the Year Award from the Music Video Production Association for Sugar Ray's Fly, which he also co-wrote (1997).

- McGinty is his mother's maiden name.

- Was to produce a 2007 remake of _Revenge of the Nerds (1984)_ (qv) starring 'Adam Brody (I)' (qv) but after three weeks of filming the project was canceled.

- Directed music video for 'Sugar Ray (I)' (qv): "Every Morning"

- Directed music video for 'Cypress Hill' (qv): "Throw Your Hands in the Air"

- Directed music video for 'Smash Mouth' (qv): "Walkin' on the Sun"

- Directed music video for 'Smash Mouth' (qv): "Why Can't We Be Friends?"

- Directed music video for 'Smash Mouth' (qv): "All Star"

- Directed music video for 'The Offspring' (qv): "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)"

- Directed music video for 'The Offspring' (qv): "Why Don't You Get a Job?"

- Directed music video for 'Imani Coppola (I)' (qv): "Legend of a Cowgirl"

- Directed music video for 'Fastball' (qv): "The Way"

- Directed music video for 'Korn' (qv) "Got the Life"

- (1998): Directed music video for 'Wyclef Jean' (qv), "Cheated (To All the Girls)".

- (1998): Directed music video for Everclear, "One Hit Wonder".

- (1999): Directed music video for Showoff, "Falling Star".

- (2001): Directed music video for 'Sugar Ray (I)' (qv), "When It's Over".

- (2001): Directed music video for 'Sugar Ray (I)' (qv), "Answer the Phone".

- (1995): Directed music video for 'Sugar Ray (I)' (qv), "Mean Machine".

- (1995): Directed music video for 'Korn' (qv), "Shoots & Ladders".

- (1995): Directed music video for 'Sugar Ray (I)' (qv), "10 Seconds Down".

- (1996): Directed music video for 'Cypress Hill' (qv), "Illusions".

- (1996): Directed music video for 'Korn' (qv), "Clown".

- (1996): Directed music video for 'Eric Benet' (qv), "Spiritual Thang".

- (1996): Directed music video for 'Sublime' (qv), "Santeria".

- (1997): Directed music video for 'Sugar Ray (I)' (qv) & Super Cat, "Fly".

- (1997): Directed music video for 'Sugar Ray (I)' (qv), "RPM".

- (1998): Directed music video for Spacehog, "Mungo City".

- (1998): Directed music video for 'Barenaked Ladies' (qv), "One Week".

- (1998): Directed music video for 'Smash Mouth' (qv), "Can't Get Enough Of You".

- (1995): Directed music video for 'Korn' (qv), "Blind".

- Directed music video for Goldo, "To All The Lovely l Ladies"

- Directed Takashi Murakami's short film "Akihabara Majokko Princess", starring Kirsten Dunst.

- I'm pretty convinced there's a chemical reality to who I am, regarding my brain, that makes me kind of a strange guy. And there's the behavioral component of growing up in a house where my dad would lose his temper a lot and my mother has a little bit of a hypochondriac streak. It doesn't take a genius to see the writing on the wall. I'm fundamentally a pretty neurotic guy, but I've come to terms with that.

- I always remember responding very emotionally to film. I had a lot of lonely time on my hands because I wasn't really the best-looking kid in my town and I sort of pined after girls. I had to sort of immerse myself in the arts because girls weren't particularly interested in me.

- There's no doubt that there's certain songs and arrangements of music that release a chemical reaction in my brain. This sounds a little goofy, but I really believe that. It's such a euphoric experience that I sort of want to chase that experience as often as possible. And it's also that set of chemical circumstances in my brain that makes me fucked up. So, you know, you take the good with the bad.

- [on the rumored appearance of 'Arnold Schwarzenegger' (qv) in _Terminator Salvation (2009)_ (qv)] Our big contribution to visual effects is, for our movie, a certain actor as he looked in his mid-thirties. I challenged ['Charles Gibson (I)' (qv)] and ILM to do something we haven't seen before and it's that actor, photo-realistic in our film.

- [on 'Christian Bale' (qv)] Christian's a good guy. Don't accuse him of being a bad guy because he's not. He loves his family, he has no entourage, he's an actor's actor and he operates from a place of passion.

- [on his inspiration for _Terminator Salvation (2009)_ (qv)] I regard the late 1970s and early 1980s as the golden age of science fiction filmmaking with movies like _Alien (1979)_ (qv), _Blade Runner (1982)_ (qv) and _The Terminator (1984)_ (qv) and I wanted to honour that golden age.

- Before you can be Johnny Depp, you have to do your time on 21 Jump Street

- It's fun to hate a guy called McG. In my humble opinion it's sheer fucking lunacy because it's just short for McGinty - fucking get past it. My name is Joseph McGinty Nichol. My mother's maiden name is McGinty. My uncle was Joe, my grandfather was Joe. I was called McG since the day I was born because we were broke and there were three Joes in the house. There's no Hollywood, 'I think I'll give myself a nickname' bullshit. It just is. And at some point I would be a sell-out punk if I rolled over and said, 'Well, call me Joe.' And I've had to suffer through teachers in the third grade saying, 'Look, no vowels!' And I suffer a bit for it now. I can only sigh and move forward.

- _Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)_ (qv) -> $4,000,000

- "Movieline" (USA), December 2000, Vol. XII, Iss. 4, pg. 106, by: Michael Moses, "'movies at home': Home Theater: The Inspiration Behind 'Charlie's Angels': To prepare for his big-screen debut, 'Charlie's Angels' director McG locked himself into his chalet and pressed play."

- "San Jose Mercury News" (USA), 14 May 2009, by: Geoff Boucher, "'Terminator' Franchise Turns Dark"

- "Playboy" (USA), January 2004, Vol. 51, Iss. 1, pg. 97, by: McG & Darren Michaels, "Lights, Camera, Fantasy!"