“The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or t...” — James Gray Quote

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

Time can be very good or very cruel to films.

The decision about digital or film is going to be made for us. I think the answer is that film is gonna be gone, although I think it'll make a comeback; it'll be like vinyl records or something.

William Atherton has a very different acting style to Bonnie Bedelia; she has a very different style than Bruce Willis.

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.

As it gets closer and more probable, being a star is really losing its meaning.

People seem to want to give 'Flowers' a comedy or a comedy-drama label. I suppose it's closer to comedy-drama, but it feels like it requires a whole new definition all of its own.

My mom is very close to me, and it has been really cool having a mom that's closer to my age because she can go out with me and stuff.

I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.