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
All I can say is sometimes home gets burned into your occipital lobe, and it can't leave you, and there's always that… — James Gray Copy Share Image
At a certain point, you have to kind of realize that greatness is a messy thing. — James Gray Copy Share Image
At Ellis Island, I mean, you didn't go there if you arrived in first class. It was only the poorest, the people… — James Gray Copy Share Image
I think storytelling is a thing of beauty, and also very difficult. It's a craft you have to continue to work at. — 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 closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is. — 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
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
I feel that The American Dream is this fallacy that you come to the United States and win lotto. That's a disservice… — 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
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
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
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
To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on… — 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
It's difficult because Manhattan is so fantastic, and it's 9 miles away, and all these cool rich people live there and have… — 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
I'm telling you, every film I've ever made has been hated by the U.K. critics. — James Gray Copy Share Image
My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories. — James Gray Copy Share Image
The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for… — James Gray 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 Copy Share Image
If everybody loves you, you must be doing something wrong. It means there's no button being pushed... The only way that everybody… — James Gray Copy Share Image
I know this sounds phony, but I don't start out on a project going, 'I'm going to make an emotional work,' you… — James Gray Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to put your finger on why a certain actor or actress will capture your attention, and you'll think they're… — James Gray Copy Share Image
I grew up in a semi-attached row house in Queens in New York. And my family and my grandparents and my father's… — James Gray Copy Share Image
If you read about the astronauts who went to the moon - the 12 who walked on it, and the others who… — 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 Image
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 Image
I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane. — 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'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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
William Atherton has a very different acting style to Bonnie Bedelia; she has a very different style than Bruce Willis. — James Gray Copy Share Image
There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose. — 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 one that's… — 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 stems from… — James Gray Copy Share Image
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 Image
