F. Gary Gray famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Because I didn't go to film school, you learn so much from a lot of creative artists.
-- F. Gary Gray

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When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid, you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story, you're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
-- F. Gary Gray

#Kids #Age #Add
There's always things from shooting a film that you pick up that hopefully make you better.
-- F. Gary Gray

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Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube, and Dre, and Mary J. Blige, and TLC. So I've been involved in hip hop since the beginning.
-- F. Gary Gray

#Careers #Ice #Hip Hop

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. . . . Competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be getting six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge for its citizens, just like national defense." --Sam Seaborne, West Wing
I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?
An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.
The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.
Speaking of sleeping bags, has anything ever had a less creative name?

F. Gary Gray famous quotes

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