James Gray Quotes
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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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William Atherton has a very different acting style to Bonnie Bedelia; she has a very different style than Bruce Willis.
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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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I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac and you can't get that.
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The opera in Los Angeles is excellent.
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Time can be very good or very cruel to films.
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I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.
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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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'Apocalypse Now' poses questions without any attempt to provide definitive answers, and the film's profound ambiguities are integral to its enduring magic.
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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.
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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.
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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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I have no athletic skills whatsoever. I'm just literally incompetent.
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I would love it if my films made a lot of money, and may I say that 'The Yards' is the only one that's lost money.