J. C. Chandor Quotes

• When it feels scary to jump, that’s exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying the same place your whole life. And that I can’t do.

  J. C. Chandor

  Scary, Violent, Ends

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• When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.

  J. C. Chandor

  People, Speak, Chatterbox

  "Chandor Talks Directing Silent Redford in 'All Is Lost' (TRAILER)". Interview with Matt Mueller, www.indiewire.com. October 18, 2013.

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• There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

  J. C. Chandor

  Avant Garde, Elements, Taste

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• When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient.

  J. C. Chandor

  Islands, Self, Littles

  "Rocking the Boat". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 16, 2013.

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• I had a caricature view of the guy in the beret with the big megaphone­­, but a movie director and writer was beyond my role of understanding.

  J. C. Chandor

  Views, Guy, Understanding

  "Rocking the Boat". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 16, 2013.

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• We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.

  J. C. Chandor

  Government, America, People

  "Director: ‘Margin Call’ Relevant To Occupy Movement", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2011.

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• I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.

  J. C. Chandor

  New York, Dad, Cities

  "Director: ‘Margin Call’ Relevant To Occupy Movement", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2011.

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• I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.

  J. C. Chandor

  Growing Up, Film, My Family

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think my films kind of walk this line that Im proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.

  J. C. Chandor

  Thinking, Lines, Proud

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• I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.

  J. C. Chandor

  Spiritual

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