Hi, everyone, and thank you for tuning into the 469th episode of the Hollywood Reporters

Awards Chatter Podcast.

I'm the host, Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is a New York-born LA-based filmmaker

who has been described by the Los Angeles Times as a director who has uncommonly carved

a career on his own terms.

By the New York Times as an accidental maverick, an unrepentant traditionalist in a business

that prizes newness and schtick, and by the French newspaper Le Monde as one of the great

American directors of our time.

He has written or co-written and directed eight feature films over the last 28 years, 1994's

Little Odessa, 2000's The Yards, 2007's We On The Night, 2008's Two Lovers, 2013's The

Immigrant, 2016's The Lost City of Zed, 2019's Add Astra, and this year's Armageddon Time,

all of which had their world premiere at one of the world's elite film festivals, Five

at Can, Two at Venice, and One at New York.

I'm talking, of course, about James Gray.

Over the course of our conversation at his home in Los Angeles, the 53-year-old and

I discussed the turmoil that was going on at home in New York as he headed off to LA

to attend film school and then at the age of just 23 to make his widely acclaimed first

feature, the challenges that he has encountered along the way, both on Indies, including multiple

run-ins with Harvey Weinstein, and on studio films, including having a film taken away from

him, while he has so often returned in his films to New York's outer burrows and to the

subjects of immigration, social class, and his own family, most recently in Armageddon

Time, plus much more.

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