The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable. — James Gray How 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 American 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 Better Copy Share Image
Actors want to work with you but they want you to do their thing. Actors, whom I love with a blind partiality,… — James Gray Actors 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 Across Copy Share Image
I have three young children, and I kind of stopped going to movies in 2006. I go to see some, but I'm… — James Gray Bit 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 Because Copy Share Image
I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.' — James Gray Before Copy Share Image
The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow. — James Gray Blow Copy Share Image
The ending shot of 'Queen Christina' with Greta Garbo is amazing. She's at the head of the ship, and she's been through… — James Gray Amazing 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 Because 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 About 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 About Copy Share Image
I've been a Yankees fan for a long time. When I was a kid in the mid-'70s, the Yankees were really great.… — James Gray Against 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 Being 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 Accumulate 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 About Copy Share Image
Sean Penn has announced his retirement from acting about 72 times. — James Gray About 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
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 audience cares what the movie looks like, not about the sleepless night you had worrying about the thing getting developed. — James Gray Audience Copy Share Image
I have no athletic skills whatsoever. I'm just literally incompetent. — James Gray Athletic 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 American Copy Share Image
