109 Quotes by James Gray

The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is.

Sean Penn has announced his retirement from acting about 72 times.

The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff. What lasts is the stuff in which the artists are totally in league with the subject.

Most people don't watch a movie four or five times; they watch it once.

The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow.

Obviously you can't commit a crime this heinous unless you've got a lot of hate and anger in your heart,

My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side of New York.

My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.

needed to do something dramatic that would attract media attention.