American - Director | April 14, 1969 -
I have no athletic skills whatsoever. I'm just literally incompetent.
James Gray
SkillsJustIncompetentLiterally
It's much easier to make a movie with kind of stylistic pyrotechnics because you can hide behind that if there's a gap in the story.
StoryYouHideKindBecauseBehind
All I can say is sometimes home gets burned into your occipital lobe, and it can't leave you, and there's always that longing.
HomeYouI CanSometimesSayLeave
At Ellis Island, I mean, you didn't go there if you arrived in first class. It was only the poorest, the people in the worst shape.
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Anyone who starts badmouthing Latino immigrants is not only a racist but ignorant. You need to refer them to what was written about the Irish, the Jews, the Italians, any group you want.
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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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I've learned that you can never predict what will happen to a film. You can never predict if people will love it, if they'll hate it. It's an act of ego if you're hoping for everyone to love the film and tell you how great you are.
LoveGreatHatePeopleEgoYou
I would love it if my films made a lot of money, and may I say that 'The Yards' is the only one that's lost money.
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I don't think my parents told me enough how the world doesn't really care about me. I think it's important to tell children that the world doesn't really care about you. You have to fight to be heard.
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I think to be a movie critic is troubling from one major respect. If you are forced to watch ten movies a week, it's really only something you can do for a few years. After a while, it's a bit too much.
RespectThinkWeekYouToo Much
I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane.
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At a certain point, you have to kind of realize that greatness is a messy thing.
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