I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane. — James Gray Copy Share Image
I'm telling you, every film I've ever made has been hated by the U.K. critics. — James Gray Copy Share Image
Most people don't watch a movie four or five times; they watch it once. — James Gray Copy Share Image
I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater. — James Gray Copy Share Image
I have no interest whatsoever in pursuing acting or becoming a mogul. I love writing and directing; I see those two jobs… — James Gray Copy Share Image
I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different… — James Gray Copy Share Image
'Apocalypse Now' poses questions without any attempt to provide definitive answers, and the film's profound ambiguities are integral to its enduring magic. — James Gray Copy Share Image
For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it… — James Gray Copy Share Image
It's much easier to make a movie with kind of stylistic pyrotechnics because you can hide behind that if there's a gap… — James Gray Copy Share Image
It's the demand of all demands to do a car chase that's unique because there are so many... really since the beginning… — James Gray Copy Share Image
The audience cares what the movie looks like, not about the sleepless night you had worrying about the thing getting developed. — James Gray Copy Share Image
What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between… — James Gray Copy Share Image
Film is better than digital in every way. It has better contrast ratio, better blacks, and better color reproduction. It's a more… — James Gray Copy Share Image
I suppose I'm always trying to break down the wall between my characters and myself. I'm trying to make the film as… — James Gray Copy Share Image
The system is not really particularly amenable to filmmakers who write and direct their own work. It's much more about the studio… — James Gray Copy Share Image
I think to be a movie critic is troubling from one major respect. If you are forced to watch ten movies a… — James Gray Copy Share Image
I went to see 'Star Trek Into Darkness,' and J.J. Abrams, who's a friend of mine, made this film, and I went… — James Gray Copy Share Image
The decision about digital or film is going to be made for us. I think the answer is that film is gonna… — James Gray Copy Share Image
I've learned that you can never predict what will happen to a film. You can never predict if people will love it,… — James Gray Copy Share Image
There's virtually nothing made up in 'The Immigrant.' So much of the film came from somewhere in my family's past. All the… — James Gray Copy Share Image
I would love it if my films made a lot of money, and may I say that 'The Yards' is the only… — James Gray Copy Share Image
The life of a film is very strange. Once the film is done, you wish you could forget about it and move… — James Gray Copy Share Image
The corporate system dictates what gets made, and the movies are so bad because of the economic structure of Hollywood. The big… — James Gray Copy Share Image
Really, what I'm doing is an attempt to continue the best work of the people I adore: Francis Coppola and Scorsese and… — James Gray Copy Share Image
The key to acting - from what little I know about that wonderful craft - is listening, and interacting with the other person in… — James Gray Copy Share
I've learned that you can never predict what will happen to a film. You can never predict if people will love it, if they'll… — James Gray Copy Share
I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane. — James Gray Copy Share
I'm just not willing to give up on myself. If I'm going to fail, then I want to fail to the limits of my… — James Gray Copy Share
I am an Ashkenazi Jew, and there are a whole host of genetic disorders that only Ashkenazi Jews have. I don't know if you… — James Gray Copy Share
All I can say is sometimes home gets burned into your occipital lobe, and it can't leave you, and there's always that longing. — James Gray Copy Share
William Atherton has a very different acting style to Bonnie Bedelia; she has a very different style than Bruce Willis. — James Gray Copy Share
There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose. — James Gray Copy Share
I would love it if my films made a lot of money, and may I say that 'The Yards' is the only one that's… — James Gray Copy Share
My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class. It probably stems from… — James Gray Copy Share
I remember as a little kid, I would always feel comfortable if the light in the crack of my parents' door was on at… — James Gray Copy Share
If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be… — James Gray Copy Share
Really, what I'm doing is an attempt to continue the best work of the people I adore: Francis Coppola and Scorsese and Robert Altman… — James Gray Copy Share
I think to be a movie critic is troubling from one major respect. If you are forced to watch ten movies a week, it's… — James Gray Copy Share
