"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."

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Source : "Chandor Talks Directing Silent Redford in 'All Is Lost' (TRAILER)". Interview with Matt Mueller, www.indiewire.com. October 18, 2013.

J. C. Chandor

#People Quotes #Speak Quotes

“I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely.”
“I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.”
“When I'm at the greatest odds with my body, it's usually because I feel my body's betraying me, whether that's been in the past, struggling with my weight and feeling that I couldn't eat what I wanted to eat, or that I couldn't get my body to do what I wanted it to do.”
“If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.”
“the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.”

Source : Leslie Caron (1983). “Vengeance”, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
“Adequate early rest is best...."Early to bed and early to rise" is still good counsel.”
“Every time you have a glass of cow milk, some calf is not.”
“It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.”

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