James Gray Quotes

I think that's the great thing about all 'Black Mirror' episodes - it really leaves you with this feeling of not knowing how to feel.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

I really believe that 'Saw' makes us stop and think and question our motives and what we're doing here on Earth.

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

I think everybody has a good and bad side.

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live. No good guys, no bad guys, just guys: that is, people bearing up in the crucible of their days and certainly not always - if ever - capable of articulating their condition.

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?

The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.

Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the perfect answer.

Man - a being in search of meaning.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

It's the murkiness of humanity that I find endlessly fascinating.

All of my work is sort of fed by a question, a need to understand the world and why the world is what it is.

Life is a mystery,but man wants to reduce it to a problem!

What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own... the angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.

I didn't study English literature - I studied philosophy at university - so Kierkegaard, Nietzsche - these people are among the most important writers to me. So my interest is in the big questions more than it is in storytelling.

I want to tell stories that are true and that resonate and move people, that highlight both the tremendous beauty and ugliness available in the human experience.

The human condition is endlessly fascinating to me, and the existential horrors of life are what drive our imaginations and theater in general.

I feel like humans, when you're faced with decisions, you can go up and down: duality.

'The Survivalist' really makes you think. It stays with you.

The meaningless absurdity of life is the only incontestable knowledge accessible to man.