Jay Chandrasekhar Quotes
I find that there's so much funny stuff in real life, and I am much more interested in super grounded, real stuff, so now I just want things to feel real and authentic.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I don't really yell at people.
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I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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I went through that phase where I wanted to almost be different than my brother. Just kind of argued a little louder or if there was a curfew, I always came in a little later than I was supposed to. If it was set for 12, I would come in at 12:45. I would test the limits a little. There was no real reason and I grew out of it, eventually.
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We gotta be proud to be Latino. It's almost like we cheating because we're American and we live by American customs, but at the same time, we got that Latino culture. We cheating; we double dipping.
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I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.
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My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.
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I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure I'm balancing time between my career and my personal life.
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I find that there's so much funny stuff in real life, and I am much more interested in super grounded, real stuff, so now I just want things to feel real and authentic.
