James Gray
James Gray
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.
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.
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.
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.
night worry care
The audience cares what the movie looks like, not about the sleepless night you had worrying about the thing getting developed.
mean good-things life-affirming
Life affirming doesn't mean good things happen.
life move
The life of a film is very strange. Once the film is done, you wish you could forget about it and move on.
work
The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is.
knew took
The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow.
burned gets home leave
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.
facts point prove
All I can do is point out what the facts are, ... All I want to do is prove he was bad, he's racist and did it and is going to do other things in the future.
amazing close ending gets head shot sticks
The ending shot of 'Queen Christina' with Greta Garbo is amazing. She's at the head of the ship, and she's been through so much, and the camera gets so close to her face. That really sticks out for me.
family good hold
The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama.
believe blown comic trek
I went to see 'Star Trek Into Darkness,' and J.J. Abrams, who's a friend of mine, made this film, and I went to see it at the premiere. Believe it or not, I was really blown away by the comic timing of it.