F. Gary Gray Quotes
When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
Quotes to Explore
-
I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
-
You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
-
I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
-
But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.
-
Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.
-
For me to go casual is not to go simple. To me, it is to be able to bring back the art of tradition and the soul of French food and my interpretation of that.
-
But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.
-
My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
-
If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
-
I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
-
Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
-
Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.
-
Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
-
My parents have Google Alerts on me. So they'll often times send me an e-mail and be like, 'Hey did you know this?' And then I'll be like, 'Well, it is, like, my life. So yes, I did know that.' Or, 'That's not even true. I don't know where you read that.' I have Googled myself, yes. But my parents really have Google Alerts on me.
-
If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
-
We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
-
I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
-
I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.
-
Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.
-
She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.
-
Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.
-
We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.
-
I feel like the beauty of this age of filmmaking is that there are more tools at your disposal, but it doesn’t mean that any of these new tools are automatically the right tools. And there are a lot of situations where we went very much old school and in fact used CG more to remove things than to add things.
-
When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
