J. C. Chandor Quotes

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.

I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

I consider my job as a screenwriter to pack a script with possibilities and ideas - to create a feast for the filmmaker to pick from.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

I sat down to take a break from writing a book and wrote a spec feature that would end up being the movie 'Lies & Alibis' with Steve Coogan.

I always have a backlog of like seven movies that I want to make.

You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money, we have a great film! No, you need a writer with voice and an engaging story, or what you have is a bomb.

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.

I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.

I love making movies.

'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and pages of scenes that will never make it onto the screen.

I always write these movies that are far too big for any paying customer to sit down and watch from beginning to end, and so I always have this big novel that I have to adapt into a movie as I go.

Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.

There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when I got out of school and started reading scripts - the really smart, character-driven stuff tends to be smaller films, and they just don't get made.

You can't make a good movie with a bad script, no matter who's involved.