James Gray
James Gray
easier stylistic
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.
admission dressed exactly found looked met might otherwise party projected talked ugly
As ugly an admission as this is, I met my wife at a party, and if I had been to the same party and she were dressed in different clothes, I might never have talked to her. She might have projected something that I found distasteful, even if she otherwise looked exactly the same - a beautiful woman to me.
across cadillac street
I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac and you can't get that.
shame
I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.
button everybody loves means toward
If everybody loves you, you must be doing something wrong. It means there's no button being pushed... The only way that everybody loves you is toward the end of your career.
films hundred million people
I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.
announced sean
Sean Penn has announced his retirement from acting about 72 times.
left mainstream movies
I think I'm a very American director, but I probably should have been making movies somewhere around 1976. I never left the mainstream of American movies; the American mainstream left me.
forget material sad truth whatsoever
The sad truth for American actors is that they really have no control whatsoever over the material that they get, or can do, particularly actresses. And if you're over 40 and you're an actress, forget it.
act ego great happen hoping learned love people predict
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.
five job movies people watch
I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane.
audiences best films marion several terrific worked
Unfortunately for critics and audiences alike, I have made several films, and some films with really terrific actors. And I say this at my own peril, but Marion Cotillard is the best actor I've ever worked with.
william
William Atherton has a very different acting style to Bonnie Bedelia; she has a very different style than Bruce Willis.
good time
Time can be very good or very cruel to films.