James Gray
James Gray
When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter.
Baseball is the greatest thing in the world.
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Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it accumulates into a movie.
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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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They stayed with the facts, and we're very pleased with it,
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There's never really been a tradition of making films about Jewish themes or using Judaism as a constant.
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I start with a mood or an idea that comes from a personal place emotionally, and the narrative concepts come much later.
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I've been a Yankees fan for a long time. When I was a kid in the mid-'70s, the Yankees were really great. They had Reggie Jackson in '77. I was 8 years old at the time. He hit three home runs to win the World Series in game six against the Dodgers, and I was just hooked.