109 Quotes by James Gray

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

The key to acting - from what little I know about that wonderful craft - is listening, and interacting with the other person in order to achieve magic. One way to do that is almost to provoke.

The corporate system dictates what gets made, and the movies are so bad because of the economic structure of Hollywood. The big business takeover of Hollywood is at fault rather than American storytellers - it's what keeps textured movies from getting made.

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.

I know this sounds phony, but I don't start out on a project going, 'I'm going to make an emotional work,' you know what I mean? You try to tell the story directly and honestly and with passion.

I'm just not willing to give up on myself. If I'm going to fail, then I want to fail to the limits of my talent.

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.

I have no athletic skills whatsoever. I'm just literally incompetent.

I'm telling you, every film I've ever made has been hated by the U.K. critics.