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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• A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.

  

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• Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

  

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• Ever since Adam's day, the divine law of the Sabbath has been emphasized repeatedly over the centuries more than any other commandment. This long emphasis alone is an indication of its importance.

  

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• I remember being with my mum eating marmalade on toast watching 'Inspector Gadget,' 'Sharky and George,' 'The Pink Panther,' and 'Thundercats,' stuff like that. Those were the days - no idea how brutal the world is.

  

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• The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.

  

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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.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • Writing
  • Advice