"My wife thinks I have an obsession with……" — James Gray
"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 like an outcast."
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26 Quotes by James Gray
James Gray has 26 quotes on this site.
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What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of,…
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The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down…
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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…
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My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower…
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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…
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The life of a film is very strange. Once the film is done, you wish you could forget about it…
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When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter.
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I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance,…
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More Class Quotes
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the…
— Aristotle
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Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out…
— Hank Azaria
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I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
— Andrea Arnold
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
— Saint Augustine
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There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class…
— Alfred Austin
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I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm…
— Diane Ackerman
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose…
— Peter Ackroyd
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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