James Gray

The opera in Los Angeles is excellent.

— James Gray

I have no athletic skills whatsoever. I'm just literally incompetent.

— James Gray

I was going to Studio 54 when I was 12 years old. It's true. It's crazy.

— James Gray

When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter.

— James Gray

Time can be very good or very cruel to films.

— James Gray

Most people don't watch a movie four or five times; they watch it once.

— James Gray

Sean Penn has announced his retirement from acting about 72 times.

— James Gray

Life affirming doesn't mean good things happen.

— James Gray

The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow.

— James Gray

I start with a mood or an idea that comes from a personal place emotionally, and the narrative concepts come much later.

— James Gray

If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will…

— James Gray

For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it…

— James Gray

My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class. It probably…

— James Gray

It's hard to run away from who you are, and when your taste is formed is a very important thing.

— James Gray

'Apocalypse Now' does not alienate us or deconstruct itself. In fact, it welcomes us in.

— James Gray

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

I think to be a movie critic is troubling from one major respect. If you are forced to watch ten movies a…

— James Gray

Actors want to work with you but they want you to do their thing. Actors, whom I love with a blind partiality,…

— James Gray

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

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

I think I'm a very American director, but I probably should have been making movies somewhere around 1976. I never left the…

— James Gray

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

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

I remember as a little kid, I would always feel comfortable if the light in the crack of my parents' door was…

— James Gray

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

As ugly an admission as this is, I met my wife at a party, and if I had been to the same…

— James Gray

I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.'

— James Gray

Baseball is the greatest thing in the world.

— James Gray

Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.

— James Gray

I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane.

— James Gray

I live up Laurel Canyon, and if I want to walk with my son, I have to drive to the park, which…

— James Gray

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

— James Gray

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

You should just write the movie based on people you actually know and then just see who wants to play it. Cast…

— James Gray

William Atherton has a very different acting style to Bonnie Bedelia; she has a very different style than Bruce Willis.

— James Gray

My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side…

— James Gray

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

The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for…

— James Gray

There's never really been a tradition of making films about Jewish themes or using Judaism as a constant.

— James Gray

There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.

— James Gray