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James Gray has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between…
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The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for…
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The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is.
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William Atherton has a very different acting style to Bonnie Bedelia; she has a very different style than Bruce Willis.
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The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow.
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I start with a mood or an idea that comes from a personal place emotionally, and the narrative concepts come much later.
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My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side…
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Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two.
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For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it…
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The life of a film is very strange. Once the film is done, you wish you could forget about it and move…
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When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter.
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We must not forget that these men and women who file through the narrow gates at Ellis Island, hopeful, confused, with bundles…
— Walter Weyl
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You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of…
— Israel Zangwill
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I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who…
— Kerry Washington
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Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles,…
— William J. Clinton
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He looked like someone with a steerage ticket on the titanic. Somebody who'd be standing in line at Ellis Island. Undiluted and…
— Rainbow Rowell
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Beginning with a trip out to Ellis Island, I saw for myself where thousands of European immigrants took their first steps onto…
— Paul Merton
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El Paso in many ways is the Ellis Island for Mexico and much of Latin America.
— Beto O'Rourke
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My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side…
— James Gray
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Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The…
— Arthur Hertzberg
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No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.
— Mitch Kapor
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