"The films I grew up loving, and the……" — James Gray
"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 the stuff in which the artists are totally in league with the subject."
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26 Quotes by James Gray
James Gray has 26 quotes on this site.
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My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class.…
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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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