I was going to Studio 54 when I was 12 years old. It's true. It's crazy. — James Gray Copy Share Image
I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.' — James Gray Copy Share Image
You should just write the movie based on people you actually know and then just see who wants to play it. Cast… — James Gray Actor Copy Share Image
My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side… — James Gray Copy Share Image
William Atherton has a very different acting style to Bonnie Bedelia; she has a very different style than Bruce Willis. — James Gray Acting Copy Share Image
I'm just not willing to give up on myself. If I'm going to fail, then I want to fail to the limits… — James Gray Copy Share Image
Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it. — James Gray Copy Share Image
I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane. — James Gray Day 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 Art Copy Share Image
I live up Laurel Canyon, and if I want to walk with my son, I have to drive to the park, which… — James Gray Copy Share Image
I am an Ashkenazi Jew, and there are a whole host of genetic disorders that only Ashkenazi Jews have. I don't know… — James Gray Copy Share Image
The word 'operatic' is often misused to mean over the top, where someone is over-emoting. And that does a terrible disservice because… — James Gray Copy Share Image
My wife and I had been to the genetic counselor; my wife is not Jewish - she's the shiksha goddess type -… — James Gray Copy Share Image
I don't think my parents told me enough how the world doesn't really care about me. I think it's important to tell… — 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 Action Copy Share Image
The sad truth for American actors is that they really have no control whatsoever over the material that they get, or can… — James Gray Actor Copy Share Image
The key to acting - from what little I know about that wonderful craft - is listening, and interacting with the other… — James Gray Copy Share Image
Anyone who starts badmouthing Latino immigrants is not only a racist but ignorant. You need to refer them to what was written… — James Gray Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I felt it essential to see every movie ever made. Now I feel as though I've got to… — James Gray Art Copy Share Image
As ugly an admission as this is, I met my wife at a party, and if I had been to the same… — James Gray Copy Share Image
Most people don't watch a movie four or five times; they watch it once. — James Gray Film Copy Share Image
I'm not a website guy, although I'm not a Luddite, either. I have looked at a computer, but I don't go to… — James Gray Copy Share Image
It's hard to run away from who you are, and when your taste is formed is a very important thing. — James Gray Copy Share Image
'Apocalypse Now' does not alienate us or deconstruct itself. In fact, it welcomes us in. — James Gray Copy Share Image
At least in America, the narrative is I'm a Cannes favorite. But, in fact, I've had my best experience in Venice, both… — James Gray America Copy Share Image
The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow. — James Gray Copy Share Image
I start with a mood or an idea that comes from a personal place emotionally, and the narrative concepts come much later. — James Gray Copy Share Image
If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will… — James Gray California 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
My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class. It probably… — James Gray Class 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
I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac and you can't get that. — 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
