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 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
If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is… — 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
'Apocalypse Now' does not alienate us or deconstruct itself. In fact, it welcomes us in. — James Gray Copy Share Image
The actor always must be in the scene, not above the scene. To communicate any larger ideas is my problem; it's how… — 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
