J. C. Chandor Quotes & Sayings

“I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.”

“I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.”

“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.”

“To have a second movie that you're proud of and that actually turned out the way you wanted, shot by shot, I realize I'm probably going to be able to do this for a little while for my living.”

“We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.”

“I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.”

“I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.”

“I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.”

“I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.”

“I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.”