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" 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 inherent narrative weakness. "
J. C. Chandor
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" I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it. "
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Myself
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