"What a director really does is set the……" — James Gray
"What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience."
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26 Quotes by James Gray
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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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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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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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