To the extent that independent means you’re willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I’m independent until the day I die. James Gray Read Quote
Apocalypse Now’ poses questions without any attempt to provide definitive answers, and the film’s profound ambiguities are integral to its enduring magic. James Gray Read Quote
I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac and you can’t get that. James Gray Read Quote
All I can say is sometimes home gets burned into your occipital lobe, and it can’t leave you, and there’s always that longing. James Gray Read Quote
I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody’s different – I don’t know how that works. James Gray Read Quote
The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama. James Gray Read Quote
It’s weird, because American films in the 1930s and ’40s, particularly melodramas, were made for woman, from Bette Davis to Joan Crawford to Barbara Stanwyck to Katherine Hepburn, and for some reason we’ve taken a step backward in this sense. James Gray Read Quote
Anyone who starts badmouthing Latino immigrants is not only a racist but ignorant. You need to refer them to what was written about the Irish, the Jews, the Italians, any group you want. James Gray Read Quote
If you read about the astronauts who went to the moon – the 12 who walked on it, and the others who orbited – all suffered serious mental trauma of one kind or another. James Gray Read Quote
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. James Gray Read Quote
