Jay Chandrasekhar Quotes
We can't make movies without scripts, and there's no cost to writing a script, so my advice to newcomers is do it yourself: Write your own script, shoot your shorts, edit your shorts.
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The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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Boys and girls, have confidence in the direction and counsel and advice of your parents and grandparents who love you more than anybody else in the world does.
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And for me, I think of the group as one in which there's always this pendulum swinging back and forth between writing shorter, more concise pieces until we get kind of sick of it and then writing pieces that get more sprawling and experimental and explore in different directions.
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Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.
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It's quite rare that you find something that you can quite literally have an absolute ball doing, as well as the tough stuff and the difficult stuff and the pain.
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We can't make movies without scripts, and there's no cost to writing a script, so my advice to newcomers is do it yourself: Write your own script, shoot your shorts, edit your shorts.
