J. C. Chandor
J. C. Chandor
Jeffrey McDonald Chandor— known as J. C. Chandor — is an American film director, producer and screenwriter, best known for directing the films Margin Call, All Is Lost, and A Most Violent Year...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth24 November 1973
CountryUnited States of America
islands self littles
When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient.
taste avant-garde elements
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.
people speak chatterbox
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.
scary violent ends
When it feels scary to jump, that’s exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying the same place your whole life. And that I can’t do.
That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
new-york dad cities
I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.