James Gray Quotes


James Gray

Wait, this could really happen to me. There`s no one watching out for us.

(Jasper County District Attorney Guy James Gray told reporters outside the courthouse that any blood or other evidence had been washed off before authorities recovered the chain.) And besides, ... any time you cover something with dirt, it`s nearly impossible to get DNA.

Any prosecutor that enjoys getting the death penalty has just got a little something wrong with him, ... You temper your enthusiasm over a verdict you know is right and just and what the jury should have done under the facts with just that little hesitation that it`s just not something you enjoy doing.

needed to do something dramatic that would attract media attention.

Mr. Berry is the weakest of the three cases as far as the death penalty, ... He does not have a racist background that the other two have. He doesn`t have the same criminal history that these other two have. But I think he may have been more of an active participant than the other two.

The murder facts in this case ... are real, real traumatic on jurors and it`s hard to handle, ... It gets you emotionally when you see the pictures of the body and learn the treatment.

It is different this time,

All I can do is point out what the facts are, ... All I want to do is prove he was bad, he`s racist and did it and is going to do other things in the future.

Apparently I`m the dramatic version of Jerry Lewis. Someone wrote that I`m the object of Gallic fetish.

The idea that if your film takes place in 1988 it should only have music from 1988 shows a totally limited sense of history and how history is an accumulation of details. Is all your furniture from 2007?

They stayed with the facts, and we`re very pleased with it,

I`m just not willing to give up on myself. If I`m going to fail, then I want to fail to the limits of my talent.

When I visualize that man with his hands on that steering wheel and that trail weaving from side-to-side on that road ... I think it deserved the death penalty,






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Films directed by James Gray
James Gray
Little Odessa (1994)
The Yards (2000)
Two Lovers (2008)