J. C. Chandor Quotes

I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.

I was probably a B student in high school, but it wasn't until I got to college that I said, 'Oh! This is what it's all about.' And then I became an A student. I studied journalism in college and that's what really kicked it into high gear for me.

By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.

I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting.

Going to college is an amazing opportunity to not only learn and be book-smart but also to kind of stretch your wings and expand yourself as a human and as an artist, whatever it is you're going for.

I was accepted to North Carolina School of the Arts with stitches in my mouth.

Everything I ever will be is because of Texas A&M University.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

In September of 1960, I was blessed - and I'm not saying blessed in the everyday religious way - when Temple University accepted me after scoring 500 on the SAT. I was 23 years old, and they put me in remedial. I was the happiest remedial person on earth.

Cornell changed my life; getting in there was one of my pinnacle moments.

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

College was a great time. I partied there, but I also learned how to act.

Education is an incredibly personal issue for me. If you're the first generation to go to college, sometimes you don't realize your potential until others point it out.

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.

I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.

I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.

When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.

School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I still pulled through, though! I excelled in art, fashion, history and English literature - anything creative. Math and science I struggled a bit more in.

For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.

My undergraduate years at the University of Nebraska were a special time in my life: the combination of partying and intellectual awakening that is what the undergraduate years are supposed to be. I went to the university with the goal of becoming an engineer; I had no concept that one could pursue science as a career.

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

I probably didn't put forth the effort I should have put forth, didn't realize the value of education until I went to college.

There is an idea that a mind is wasted on the arts unless it makes you good in math or science. There is some evidence that the arts might help you in math and science.

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.