James Gray
James Gray
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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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While it will take us some time to put on the finishing touches, the future holds a bigger, brighter, better space that will allow us to better serve you.
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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.
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To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.
Baseball is the greatest thing in the world.
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Unfortunately for critics and audiences alike, I have made several films, and some films with really terrific actors. And I say this at my own peril, but Marion Cotillard is the best actor I've ever worked with.
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Film is better than digital in every way. It has better contrast ratio, better blacks, and better color reproduction. It's a more organic image, which is more the way your eyes see.
When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter.
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I grew up in a semi-attached row house in Queens in New York. And my family and my grandparents and my father's from Brooklyn, and so you're essentially an outer boroughs kid, you're growing up.
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I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane.
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Most people don't watch a movie four or five times; they watch it once.
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Obviously you can't commit a crime this heinous unless you've got a lot of hate and anger in your heart,
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I was going to Studio 54 when I was 12 years old. It's true. It's crazy.