J. C. Chandor Quotes
There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this there's certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.
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When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figure had to be fantastic. Now that I'm a singer, I've got a different kind of body – it's more athletic.
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My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.
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I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.
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I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.
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I like wearing things that are a bit off but not in a ridiculous 'I'm wearing a huge hat' kind of way. More a socks with sandals way.
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You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary.
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In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
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I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.
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Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you're kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan's perspective.
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I'm kind of a reluctant guru.
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I come from the 49er, where there is a high error rate in the sailing but the best sailor still wins, and that's why I'm attracted to these kind of boats.
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It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.
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The first guy I really liked and was kind of obsessed with and had to seek out and find more of his films was Jean-Paul Belmondo. He was the main guy that I was obsessed with.
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Not in this specific form. But all great cities are inhabited by ghosts. A book of this kind could probably be written about Jakarta, Manila, or London by anyone who had a feeling for the invisible truths of those places.
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I never said I don't like gay people.
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My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
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There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this there's certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.
