Top 87 Quotes by James Gray

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

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

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.

The life of a film is very strange. Once the film is done, you wish you could forget about it and move on.

The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.

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.

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

Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two.

I grew up in a semi-attached row house in Queens in New York. And my family and my grandparents and my father's from Brooklyn, and so you're essentially an outer boroughs kid, you're growing up.

I don't think my parents told me enough how the world doesn't really care about me. I think it's important to tell children that the world doesn't really care about you. You have to fight to be heard.