James Gray
James Gray
disservice emotion mean means misused terrible word
The word 'operatic' is often misused to mean over the top, where someone is over-emoting. And that does a terrible disservice because 'operatic' to me means a commitment and a belief to the emotion of the moment that is sincere.
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.
english few movies obsession romantic
There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.
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.
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.
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.
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.
carried genetic goddess jewish passed positive three type
My wife and I had been to the genetic counselor; my wife is not Jewish - she's the shiksha goddess type - and was negative for everything. But I was positive. I carried the gene for three genetic disorders, which, if she had been positive for, we would have passed down to the child.
feeling guess obsession social stems thinks wife
My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class. It probably stems from feeling like an outcast.
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.