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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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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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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I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
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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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We always go into a game to win.
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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 guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.
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Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.
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I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
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It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.
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Quakers are terrific.
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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.
