J. C. Chandor Quotations

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 had a caricature view of the guy in the beret with the big megaphone­­, but a movie director and writer was beyond my role of understanding.

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 Im proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.

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.

When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient.

There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.

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.