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Dialogue: James Gray


May 20, 2007 Screenwriter-director James Gray burst onto the American indie scene at the age of 25 with his feature film debut, "Little Odessa." Despite earning lavish praise for the Brooklyn-set crime drama, Gray eschewed the call to churn out high-concept scripts for other directors or secure a first-look studio deal. Instead, the USC film school graduate spent six years writing and developing his follow-up project, "The Yards," which boasted a cast of eventual A-list stars including Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron and Joaquin Phoenix.

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