'I tried to put as much detail into the script as I could, but I didn’t want him to do an imitation of my dad.' The 'Armageddon Time' director JamesGray called up 'The Batman' director mattreevesLA for a chat about the power of digging up the past.
alongside newcomers Banks Repeta and Jaylin Webb, is a semi-autobiographical excavation of Gray’s childhood that exuberantly collides the personal and political.
GRAY: I tried to put as much detail into the script as I could, but I didn’t want him to do an imitation of my dad. I was very resistant to that.GRAY: I showed him some pictures, but I said, “I want you to do your own thing. As much as you need to know about my father, it’s in the screenplay.”GRAY: Yeah. My father died, as you know—well, maybe you don’t remember. You were in the middle of your own maelstrom.
GRAY: That’s certainly true. There’s almost a natural wall that exists between the artist and the subject or the work. The question really is, how effectively can you break down that wall? How effectively can you start to communicate directly with your emotions, with your internal life? For me, it’s not what I look for in, dare I use this dirty word, art. And I’ve quoted this many times to the point of nausea, but I keep going back to it.
GRAY: That’s the reason that we experience art, to look into the soul of others and to find that element of compassion. Not to sneer, not to act like we’re smarter, bigger, fancier. We’re not better. So to me, any other pursuit is an act of folly, because it becomes a perverse kind of narcissism. Now look, we have to be narcissists to make a film. To me, the toughest part of direction in some sense is you have to be a narcissist.
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