J. C. Chandor Quotes
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.
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I always watch the work I do.
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Of course watching a particularly exciting game or a wonderful contestant is always a joy.
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.
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90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.
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My first thought is always of light.
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I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
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Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.
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I always say the greats just get better.
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I always knew I was destined for greatness.
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I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch.
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He was a man, he always performed his promises.
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I've experienced many hardships, but mentally, I've always been older, and that reflects in my actions, too.
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It's the messiness of life that ultimately leads you to the most interesting things. Everyone asks what you would do over, and I don't know because then you have this story to tell, and if you did everything over and made it perfect, what would you talk about?
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Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
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Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
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When I first heard about Twittering, I thought it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever heard of in my life. It's like the devil: the idea that your personal life is there for everybody.
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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.
