James Gray
James Gray
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I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
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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.
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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 don't think anybody realized until last Tuesday that this was a Klan-type outfit, a white supremacist-type outfit, ... Most people thought it was just a bunch of guys getting drunk on Saturday night or a drug deal that went bad.
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It's very difficult to put your finger on why a certain actor or actress will capture your attention, and you'll think they're right for a role. There's an essence to a person.
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There's virtually nothing made up in 'The Immigrant.' So much of the film came from somewhere in my family's past. All the details are from my own family.
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It's the demand of all demands to do a car chase that's unique because there are so many... really since the beginning of film, even in the silent era, 'The Keystone Cops.'
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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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It's weird, because American films in the 1930s and '40s, particularly melodramas, were made for woman, from Bette Davis to Joan Crawford to Barbara Stanwyck to Katherine Hepburn, and for some reason we've taken a step backward in this sense.
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The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.
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The key to acting - from what little I know about that wonderful craft - is listening, and interacting with the other person in order to achieve magic. One way to do that is almost to provoke.
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At least in America, the narrative is I'm a Cannes favorite. But, in fact, I've had my best experience in Venice, both with the audience and the jury.
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At a certain point, you have to kind of realize that greatness is a messy thing.
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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.