Chandor Quotes

#1. Man becomes a man only when he stops bossing around both his own fellow man and other living beings!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. I'm a huge fan of the films of the '70s and even into the '80s, Sidney Lumet, all those films that used what was going on in people's lives as drama. And not only are you entertained, but hopefully have a greater understanding of your world coming out of it.

J. C. Chandor

#3. I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#4. 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

#5. Sin builds up. Forgiveness cleans up.

Todd Stocker

#6. I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.

J. C. Chandor

#7. When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.

J. C. Chandor

#8. To have a second movie that you're proud of and that actually turned out the way you wanted, shot by shot, I realize I'm probably going to be able to do this for a little while for my living.

J. C. Chandor

#9. I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.

J. C. Chandor

#10. Just making a movie the way 'All is Lost' had to be made was a great experience, because it was structured differently than any other film I will make for the rest of my life.

J. C. Chandor

#11. 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

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

J. C. Chandor

#13. The original Spencer Tracy version of 'The Old Man and the Sea' was always terribly flawed because of the over-reliance on voice over, but it's still a beautiful movie.

J. C. Chandor

#14. That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.

J. C. Chandor

#15. I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.

J. C. Chandor

#16. I'm guessing that musicals didn't make sense anymore because of the changes in the political environment that began in the late Sixties, an era of self-awareness and social revolutions.

Carmen Ejogo

#17. I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.

J. C. Chandor

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

J. C. Chandor

#19. A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.

Dallas Willard

#20. You cannot survive in the information era, unless you breathe and filter information at your own pace, according to your own interests and passions.

Anonymous

#21. 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

#22. As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.

J. C. Chandor

#23. Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul. A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure.

William Lawson

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

J. C. Chandor

#25. 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

#26. Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.

Audrey Hepburn