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James Gray (Movie Maker)Born in 1969 in Brooklyn, New York, James Gray is a film director and screenwriter. He grew in Queens. At age 10, Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now is a turning point for his future life. While having shown interest for drawing and pictorial art, his interests expand to filmmaking art. He studies at the University of Southern California, where his student film Cowboys and Angels received good reviews. In 1994, at age 25, he made his first feature film Little Odessa, a dark film about a hit man confronted to his younger brother, when returning to his hometown, "Little Odessa" a section of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. This tensed psychological drama attained critical success, and James Gray rose to indie success. In 2000, Miramax helps him coming back and produces his second film, The Yards, written and shot in 1998. With this film he reexamines the dark film genre. The film is nominated at the Cannes Film Festival. In the meantime, he has refused several scripts, among them The Devil's Own, directed later by Alan J. Pakula, in 1997. He has also written an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel Paycheck, but no studio wanted to produce it. He has also appeared in several films as cinematographer and once as actor. In only two films, James Gray gained notoriety. Gray, James
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