Jeffrey McDonald "J. C." Chandor (born November 24, 1973) is an American screenwriter and director, best known for directing the film Margin Call (2011). Read full biography of J. C. Chandor →
I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job... →
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 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 I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.
I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.
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.
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.
When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.
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... →
I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in... →
I'm a huge fan of the films of the '70s and even into the '80s, Sidney Lumet, all those films that used what was going on in people's... →
Just making a movie the way 'All is Lost' had to be made was a great experience, because it was structured differently than any other film I... →
Jeffrey McDonald "J. C." Chandor (born November 24, 1973) is an American screenwriter and director, best known for directing the film Margin Call (2011).