American - Director | April 14, 1969 -
I suppose I'm always trying to break down the wall between my characters and myself. I'm trying to make the film as expressive and personal as I can, even if I can't explain, for example, how important it is for me to be Jewish.
James Gray
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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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It's hard to run away from who you are, and when your taste is formed is a very important thing.
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I'm telling you, every film I've ever made has been hated by the U.K. critics.
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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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Most people don't watch a movie four or five times; they watch it once.
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The actor always must be in the scene, not above the scene. To communicate any larger ideas is my problem; it's how the narrative is constructed and directed that hopefully does it.
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Really, what I'm doing is an attempt to continue the best work of the people I adore: Francis Coppola and Scorsese and Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick and those amazing directors whose work I grew up with and loved.
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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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If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.
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I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac and you can't get that.
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