James Gray Quotes

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• My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class. It probably stems from feeling…
• What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and…
• The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama.
• The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is.
• William Atherton has a very different acting style to Bonnie Bedelia; she has a very different style than Bruce Willis.
• The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow.
• I start with a mood or an idea that comes from a personal place emotionally, and the narrative concepts come much later.
• My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side of New York.
• Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two.
• For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it accumulates into a…
• The life of a film is very strange. Once the film is done, you wish you could forget about it and move on.
• When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter.
• I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
• I have no interest whatsoever in pursuing acting or becoming a mogul. I love writing and directing; I see those two jobs as the most…
• The opera in Los Angeles is excellent.
• I live up Laurel Canyon, and if I want to walk with my son, I have to drive to the park, which is so insane…
• There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.
• Baseball is the greatest thing in the world.
• Anyone who starts badmouthing Latino immigrants is not only a racist but ignorant. You need to refer them to what was written about the Irish,…
• The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff. What lasts is…

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