Jay Chandrasekhar Quotes
It takes a year for us to generate a script that is ready to shoot. There are maybe 20 drafts of a script. And, each time, someone saying 'I don't really love this,' we discuss it for 15 minutes.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
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I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.
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The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
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I approach any collaboration I do differently.
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How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.
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The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.
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It's, like, sort of a dream thing for an actor when they're told to gain weight.
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It takes a year for us to generate a script that is ready to shoot. There are maybe 20 drafts of a script. And, each time, someone saying 'I don't really love this,' we discuss it for 15 minutes.
