James Gray Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“It's difficult because Manhattan is so fantastic, and it's 9 miles away, and all these cool rich people live there and have great lives, and you live in a semi-attached row house in Queens.”

“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.”

“My wife and I had been to the genetic counselor; my wife is not Jewish - she's the shiksha goddess type - and was negative for everything. But I was positive. I carried the gene for three genetic disorders, which, if she had been positive for, we would have passed down to the child.”

“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.”

“Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.”

“'Apocalypse Now' does not alienate us or deconstruct itself. In fact, it welcomes us in.”

“At a certain point, you have to kind of realize that greatness is a messy thing.”

“Baseball is the greatest thing in the world.”

“For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it accumulates into a movie.”

“I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.”