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I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots.
— Damien Chazelle
If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I've always found it so fascinating.
— Damien Chazelle
Nothing is guaranteed to last, so you should just enjoy it as it happens.
— Damien Chazelle
There something to be said for having even unrealistic dreams. Even if the dreams don't come true - that, to me, is what's beautiful about Los Angeles. It's full of these people who have moved there to chase these dreams.
— Damien Chazelle
Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009.
— Damien Chazelle
I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
— Damien Chazelle
What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.
— Damien Chazelle
I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing.
— Damien Chazelle
I feel like a lot of directing is casting.
— Damien Chazelle
I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician of any kind of caliber, your holy grail was to be in that orchestra. It was that claim to fame of the school, of the town, other than the university. But it was better than the university band.
— Damien Chazelle
I guess I'm kind of interested in that elusive search for a bond between life and work and between compassion and competitiveness. There's always something at the end you have to find to live a full life, but it's hard to find.
— Damien Chazelle
I like movies where you feel like it was actually thought through.
— Damien Chazelle
There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
— Damien Chazelle
I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
— Damien Chazelle
It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.
— Damien Chazelle
I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.
— Damien Chazelle
The greatest thing has been that projects that were pipe dreams before 'Whiplash' are now feeling more realistic.
— Damien Chazelle
Certainly, grades only matter so much when you're in Hollywood. But I became an utterly motivated, devoted, committed student. I was a good student because I was convinced that it would somehow help me in my quest to become a filmmaker.
— Damien Chazelle
It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power.
— Damien Chazelle
Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.
— Damien Chazelle
I like the idea of working my way up. I don't feel impatient to immediately jump into something that could literally bring down a studio if I don't do it well.
— Damien Chazelle
I remember when I first met Jason Reitman with the 'Whiplash' script; he quickly became a mentor figure who guided me through the process and also protected me and made sure that when it came time to actually make 'Whiplash,' I was able to make exactly the movie I wanted to make.
— Damien Chazelle
Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.
— Damien Chazelle
As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.
— Damien Chazelle
'La La Land' is about the city I live in. It's about the music that I grew up playing; it's about movies that I grew up watching. Even the big spectacle of the movie feels private to me in that way.
— Damien Chazelle
I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
— Damien Chazelle
I think there is something to be said for not coddling people and not accepting good as good enough.
— Damien Chazelle
The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.
— Damien Chazelle
I tend to latch on to things and not let go.
— Damien Chazelle
One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is such a big part of it, so it feels like it should be less soldiers in an army and more like free spirits melding. And yet, big band jazz has a real military side to it.
— Damien Chazelle
When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
— Damien Chazelle
I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
— Damien Chazelle
It's easy to show terrible people's behavior on screen, and we all just kind of nod and go, 'Isn't that terrible.' It's more interesting when you can show terrible behavior in the interest of something good.
— Damien Chazelle
I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
— Damien Chazelle
By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue it.
— Damien Chazelle
I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
— Damien Chazelle
I like a set to be a happy place, where people can feel free to experiment.
— Damien Chazelle
There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out of tune, or stopping and starting me for hours in front of the band as they watched.
— Damien Chazelle
If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
— Damien Chazelle
I was interested in music and making movies about musicians, but my own experiences, and doing what it felt like for me to be a drummer? Nah, I wasn't interested in that.
— Damien Chazelle
I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter.
— Damien Chazelle
If you're on the varsity team, the responsibilities are a lot bigger and there's more stress, but you also walk around feeling probably like you can hold your head high.
— Damien Chazelle
I love the ending of 'The Wrestler.'
— Damien Chazelle
There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a practice room by yourself, unable to master a simple thing like a rudiment.
— Damien Chazelle
I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
— Damien Chazelle
I handle screenings and award ceremonies really badly.
— Damien Chazelle
I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.
— Damien Chazelle
I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn't even really into jazz that much.
— Damien Chazelle
My version of a stress dream is, really, showing up on a concert stage with a drum set and not knowing the chart.
— Damien Chazelle
People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.
— Damien Chazelle
At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.
— Damien Chazelle
I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the language that musicians can use to treat each other or, like, the way that you can see it dehumanize and the way that it can feel like boot camp.
— Damien Chazelle
I had seen a lot of music movies that celebrated music or that showed the kind of joys from playing music, which is a big part of it of course, and not something that I would want to deny.
— Damien Chazelle
It's a weird thing where, especially in jazz, you have to totally mention cutting sessions and people one-upping each other and people being super, super tough on each other. And out of it emerge these genius musicians.
— Damien Chazelle
I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.
— Damien Chazelle
The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have without this really tough conductor and this really cutthroat hostile environment I was in.
— Damien Chazelle
As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college.
— Damien Chazelle
I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.
— Damien Chazelle
I'm a terrible procrastinator.
— Damien Chazelle
My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
— Damien Chazelle
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