The opera in Los Angeles is excellent.
From James Gray
I live up Laurel Canyon, and if I want to walk with my son, I have to drive to the park, which is so insane to me.
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.
If everybody loves you, you must be doing something wrong. It means there's no button being pushed... The only way that everybody loves you is toward the end of your career.
Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.
There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.
I've been a Yankees fan for a long time. When I was a kid in the mid-'70s, the Yankees were really great. They had Reggie Jackson in '77. I was 8 years old at the time. He hit three home runs to win the World Series in game six against the Dodgers, and I was just hooked.
Baseball is the greatest thing in the world.
I have no athletic skills whatsoever. I'm just literally incompetent.
It's much easier to make a movie with kind of stylistic pyrotechnics because you can hide behind that if there's a gap in the story.
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