James Gray Says Actors “Dictate the Style” of Films and Explains Why, When People Talk in a Cinema, “You Want to Kill Them”
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- Deadline Hollywood·3h agoJames Gray Talks Dream Quality Of Cinema & Approach With Cast: “I’m Not A Good Director Of Actors” – Locarno
James Gray continued his festival tour with Paper Tiger this weekend setting down in the Locarno Film Festival to receive an honorary award ahead of the film’s Swiss premiere on its landmark Piazza Grande. Meeting the press ahead of the screening on Sunday evening, Gray gave an…
Read at Deadline Hollywood → - Hollywood Reporter·4h agoJames Gray Says Actors “Dictate the Style” of Films and Explains Why, When People Talk in a Cinema, “You Want to Kill Them”
At Locarno, where he will receive the Career Leopard, the U.S. auteur shared that he is "always shocked" when an actor wants to work with him and also why movies are "the closest thing we have to a dream."
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