James Gray
James Gray
good time
Time can be very good or very cruel to films.
night worry care
The audience cares what the movie looks like, not about the sleepless night you had worrying about the thing getting developed.
writing play people
You should just write the movie based on people you actually know and then just see who wants to play it. Cast the net.
symphony actors orchestra
Actors want to work with you but they want you to do their thing. Actors, whom I love with a blind partiality, sometimes they want to be soloists in the symphony, not a part of the orchestra.
grateful writing play
Actors do want to work with me and I'm very grateful for that, but you never know. I could write parts for them that they don't want to play and then all of the sudden they don't want to work with you that much.
english few movies obsession romantic
There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.
disabled gained people province
We've gained something for disabled people in the province that they've never had before. Now they have rights.
director distance lack mood
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.
happen watching
Wait, this could really happen to me. There's no one watching out for us.
across create director environment given moments truth within
What I do have to get across is the truth of the moment within the given scene. It's my job, as a director and screenwriter, to create the environment in which all those moments will come together eventually.
although answer gonna records vinyl
The decision about digital or film is going to be made for us. I think the answer is that film is gonna be gone, although I think it'll make a comeback; it'll be like vinyl records or something.
art cliche concert course essential felt knows opera though truth watch
When I was younger, I felt it essential to see every movie ever made. Now I feel as though I've got to read every book, see every art show, watch every play and opera and concert and so on. It does not end, and of course there is truth in the old cliche that the more one knows, the more one realizes one knows nothing at all.