William Atherton has a very different acting style to Bonnie Bedelia; she has a very different style than Bruce Willis.
From James Gray
The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow.
Most people don't watch a movie four or five times; they watch it once.
What I do have to get across is the truth of the moment within the given scene. It's my job, as a director and screenwriter, to create the environment in which all those moments will come together eventually.
The actor always must be in the scene, not above the scene. To communicate any larger ideas is my problem; it's how the narrative is constructed and directed that hopefully does it.
Really, what I'm doing is an attempt to continue the best work of the people I adore: Francis Coppola and Scorsese and Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick and those amazing directors whose work I grew up with and loved.
I start with a mood or an idea that comes from a personal place emotionally, and the narrative concepts come much later.
If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.
I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac and you can't get that.
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.
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