The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow. James Gray Read Quote
It’s hard to run away from who you are, and when your taste is formed is a very important thing. James Gray Read Quote
I suppose I’m always trying to break down the wall between my characters and myself. I’m trying to make the film as expressive and personal as I can, even if I can’t explain, for example, how important it is for me to be Jewish. James Gray Read Quote
The life of a film is very strange. Once the film is done, you wish you could forget about it and move on. James Gray Read Quote
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. James Gray Read Quote
I have no interest whatsoever in pursuing acting or becoming a mogul. I love writing and directing; I see those two jobs as the most critical in the making of a film. James Gray Read Quote
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. James Gray Read Quote
