James Gray
James Gray
ellis
My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.
attract dramatic media needed
needed to do something dramatic that would attract media attention.
dramatic formed gain needed newly order respect warped
needed to do something dramatic in order to gain in their warped world respect for his newly formed gang.
announced sean
Sean Penn has announced his retirement from acting about 72 times.
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.
english few movies obsession romantic
There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.
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.
amazing attempt best continue coppola directors francis grew kubrick people robert scorsese stanley whose work
Really, what I'm doing is an attempt to continue the best work of the people I adore: Francis Coppola and Scorsese and Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick and those amazing directors whose work I grew up with and loved.
bit critic few forced major movies respect ten troubling watch
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.
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.
directed hopefully larger narrative
The actor always must be in the scene, not above the scene. To communicate any larger ideas is my problem; it's how the narrative is constructed and directed that hopefully does it.
art artists believe melodrama situations stories stunning
Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the artists believe in the situation dramatically. There's no irony or distance.
melodrama people
Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two.
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.