James Gray Quotes
-
Baseball is the greatest thing in the world.
-
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.
-
'Apocalypse Now' poses questions without any attempt to provide definitive answers, and the film's profound ambiguities are integral to its enduring magic.
-
The opera in Los Angeles is excellent.
-
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.
-
I'm telling you, every film I've ever made has been hated by the U.K. critics.
-
I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.
-
Time can be very good or very cruel to films.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I'm not a website guy, although I'm not a Luddite, either. I have looked at a computer, but I don't go to PopSugar and Goop and all that.
-
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.
-
I have no athletic skills whatsoever. I'm just literally incompetent.
-
There's never really been a tradition of making films about Jewish themes or using Judaism as a constant.