Damien Chazelle
Related EVE BEST KIM CATTRALL I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL I don't spend a lot of time online. My mother's really good at picking out if she sees a rea... NATHAN FILLION I absolutely want and prize and love and revere every single media review I get, but if I got 50 rev... CAROLINE LEAVITT Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX ALAN BENNETT ANNE WOJCICKI DAVID JOHANSEN It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON JERRY GARCIA CHARLIE KAUFMAN MARC JACOBS CHANTAL SUTHERLAND JACK LOWDEN I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES GEORGE BURNS I don't know if that's a year's bad luck, or if that's how it works. But stealing a ... ADRIAN MCKINTY It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I'm only... I'm only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I'm... ALAN KING If the project has good writing and is something I get excited about, then I'll do the role. And... GBENGA AKINNAGBE I'm just me. I'm just very opinionated. I react to whatever I see. If it's good, it'... MEL B Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it... KARY MULLIS AYELET ZURER I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those... TAO LIN If I find myself just not feeling like writing songs anymore, I think I'll drop it. There's ... ISAAC BROCK JULIAN LENNON I can be impatient. But I don't think it's always a bad habit. Sometimes a little impatience... BRANT DAUGHERTY BLAKE LIVELY I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't kno... ARIEL PINK In the West, people don't have any real problems. It's all based on bad conscience, a very C... MARJANE SATRAPI CLINT EASTWOOD I would love to have a conversation with you when we're working, and if I'm at a basketball ... EMILY RIOS I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I con... LAURA VANDERVOORT KATE WINSLET When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going... TEA OBREHT You get a bad review with a novel, and it hurts. But I imagine if you get a bad review with a memoir... DARIN STRAUSS I don't read good reviews. I like to know what percentages are going on. When Sony sends out som... EVAN GOLDBERG I don't read reviews until after I'm done with a production, but when I do finally get to th... WILL CHASE BRENE BROWN ALAN BALL RACHEL DRATCH Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? W... EUGENE CERNAN Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? W... GENE CERNAN ERIC KRIPKE HAROLD PRINCE ANTHONY BOURDAIN I don't aspire to be a sex icon, I don't know why anyone would. It's an uncomfortable po... BILLY HOWLE DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK I don't care if it's somebody else's song. Most of the time, you'll find that I'... TAJ MAHAL My friends and family have been so well trained that they know I really mean it when I say that I do... RICHARD GREENBERG 'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, eve... ELLEN MUTH If you haven't read 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone', I reckon it's a pretty good p... ADRIAN MCKINTY SHY GLIZZY I always say don't be scared. It's not that bad - there's always something worse - and t... TERI GARR DAVE NAVARRO I've read the poker books, but at this point, everybody who's playing has read the poker boo... IRA GLASS There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's s... CATHERINE OPIE BARRY EISLER I don't know if I'm a daredevil, exactly, but I do enjoy a good challenge. It's the only... NATALIE DORMER I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80. PATRICIA ARQUETTE HALSEY Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it... MIA WASIKOWSKA I don't read reviews. I refuse to have my ego inflated or deflated by someone I don't know. SUZAN-LORI PARKS You know, I don't watch television! Sorry! I actually don't even have a television. I don... BROOKE SMITH It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a mela... NORAH JONES It's funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn't know you before. People always use... TERRY O'QUINN About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS RICK RIORDAN Most people don't know that I'll eat anything spicy. A little extra kick is always a good th... KELLI BERGLUND If the news isn't there, don't create it. If I look at local news, I don't know what'... WILLIE HERENTON AERIEL MIRANDA TAYLOR SWIFT OMARI HARDWICK WERNER HERZOG JERRY GARCIA KELLY CLARKSON For some reason I've been labeled that and it's fine, but there are a lot of other artists t... ALAN JACKSON LUKE BRYAN DAVID DUCHOVNY ASTRO Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don'... JOHN SHELTON REED Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don'... BEN KATCHOR DANIELLE STEEL When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know an... CICELY TYSON I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's on... PADDY CONSIDINE Before you worry about what genre it is, about whether it's a loop or a drum, it's about wha... BETH ORTON Every time I do a play, it's as if I've never done one before. I'm always confused. I al... CRISTIN MILIOTI BRAD FELD CHLOE SEVIGNY I don't listen to the radio, cause I don't have a driver's license. But if I'm in L.... BENNY BLANCO Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't wor... KARY MULLIS I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don&#... IMELDA STAUNTON I'll read any anthologies or collection I can get my hands on. If I find a book mentioned in ... ELLEN DATLOW I'll get a three-page letter and the last paragraph says 'I know you'll never read this,... DAVE HEINEMAN KENDALL JENNER
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I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew. DAMIEN CHAZELLE I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I handle screenings and award ceremonies really badly. DAMIEN CHAZELLE It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into o... DAMIEN CHAZELLE The greatest thing has been that projects that were pipe dreams before 'Whiplash' are now fe... DAMIEN CHAZELLE It's easy to show terrible people's behavior on screen, and we all just kind of nod and go, ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE 'La La Land' is about the city I live in. It's about the music that I grew up playing; i... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific disci... DAMIEN CHAZELLE Nothing is guaranteed to last, so you should just enjoy it as it happens. 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 writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills. DAMIEN CHAZELLE By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to v... DAMIEN CHAZELLE One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art f... DAMIEN CHAZELLE My version of a stress dream is, really, showing up on a concert stage with a drum set and not knowi... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and t... DAMIEN CHAZELLE My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I guess I'm kind of interested in that elusive search for a bond between life and work and betwe... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode. DAMIEN CHAZELLE I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almos... 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 like a set to be a happy place, where people can feel free to experiment. DAMIEN CHAZELLE There something to be said for having even unrealistic dreams. Even if the dreams don't come tru... DAMIEN CHAZELLE When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I remember when I first met Jason Reitman with the 'Whiplash' script; he quickly became a me... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day. DAMIEN CHAZELLE I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements an... DAMIEN CHAZELLE As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain. DAMIEN CHAZELLE In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all a... DAMIEN CHAZELLE The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it beca... DAMIEN CHAZELLE It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWI... DAMIEN CHAZELLE When someone is playing drums, they aren't actually moving around a space; they're just movi... DAMIEN CHAZELLE People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like lookin... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the mov... DAMIEN CHAZELLE My first movie was totally improvised. DAMIEN CHAZELLE If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as t... DAMIEN CHAZELLE What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history bec... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winte... DAMIEN CHAZELLE Whiplash' was just a lucky kind of convergence of events in that I'd been trying to get a bi... DAMIEN CHAZELLE The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well e... DAMIEN CHAZELLE The first thing I did as a child was draw. I wanted to make animated movies. I think Disney's &#... DAMIEN CHAZELLE If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not re... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not re... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots. DAMIEN CHAZELLE There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a pra... DAMIEN CHAZELLE There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a pra... DAMIEN CHAZELLE First time that I cried at a work of art was at a drum solo that I saw. A drummer named Winard Harpe... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and s... DAMIEN CHAZELLE In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I&... DAMIEN CHAZELLE 'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I ge... DAMIEN CHAZELLE Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. Th... DAMIEN CHAZELLE At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this k... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so t... DAMIEN CHAZELLE There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searc... DAMIEN CHAZELLE People aren't inherently sympathetic. DAMIEN CHAZELLE What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing an... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I tend to latch on to things and not let go. DAMIEN CHAZELLE If you want to make a movie, there may be many forces trying to pull you down, but really, a lot of ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your s... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers... DAMIEN CHAZELLE Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker. DAMIEN CHAZELLE I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz. DAMIEN CHAZELLE Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pre... DAMIEN CHAZELLE Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musica... DAMIEN CHAZELLE 'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw wi... DAMIEN CHAZELLE It's a weird thing where, especially in jazz, you have to totally mention cutting sessions and p... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I think there is something to be said for not coddling people and not accepting good as good enough. DAMIEN CHAZELLE I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I'm a terrible procrastinator. DAMIEN CHAZELLE As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college. DAMIEN CHAZELLE I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drum... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.' DAMIEN CHAZELLE Certainly, grades only matter so much when you're in Hollywood. But I became an utterly motivate... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I'm too self-serious for a comedy. DAMIEN CHAZELLE Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your hea... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I like the idea of working my way up. I don't feel impatient to immediately jump into something ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE There's something about some of my favorite musicals that they put me in a sort of heightened st... DAMIEN CHAZELLE There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptation... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I was really trying to sell to people who hate jazz: to make a case for the art form as youthful and... DAMIEN CHAZELLE DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to expre... DAMIEN RICE Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and ... DAMIEN RICE I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying... DAMIEN RICE I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I'd ever had. And it was also the... DAMIEN RICE I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and th... DAMIEN RICE Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate v... DAMIEN RICE I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to... DAMIEN RICE There's a Nina Simone record that I love, 'Live at Vine Street,' and she sings flat on i... DAMIEN RICE I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that... DAMIEN RICE Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or gro... DAMIEN RICE I'm not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don... DAMIEN RICE I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are ch... DAMIEN RICE I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame. DAMIEN RICE I've learned very, very, very clearly that money does not equal happiness or security, either. DAMIEN RICE Everyone is capable of everything. DAMIEN RICE I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and sa... DAMIEN RICE Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able t... DAMIEN RICE The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zo... DAMIEN RICE When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the wr... DAMIEN RICE The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't f... DAMIEN RICE I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is con... DAMIEN RICE A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be ... DAMIEN RICE I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see any... DAMIEN RICE Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again. DAMIEN RICE When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto o... DAMIEN RICE I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortab... 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I don't read reviews. I find them very distracting, whether they're good or bad. 
I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get... 
I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't qu... 
If you don't read it, you don't know. I mean, that's why I have a PR team. They read it ... 
I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it. 
I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others... 
I tend to not only read reviews, but also every little stupid thing online. It's a very bad idea... 
But in another, I think a woman's going to go into a shop to find a coat or a jacket and I just ... 
I don't even know why, but I've just always done it - I don't walk on handicapped parkin... 
I'm not running about playing romantic leads. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thi... 
If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I... 
If I get lucky and I can choose, I would always choose a really good story and screenplay, even if I... 
He wasn't a great father. He was a great musician. That's always been a touchy one, and it w... 
I don't believe that there's a good guy and a bad guy. Unless it's like Superman or Batm... 
I've always felt that if I examine myself too much, I'll find out what I know and don't ... 
I don't read any reviews, so I'm oblivious to what they have to say. I'm completely unaw... 
To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That's why I don'... 
I don't really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, ... 
Everybody always asks about Jimmy Fallon. I'm sorry to say that he's very nice and there'... 
If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do, but if I did, it's one that's intensely ... 
I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any se... 
When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous... 
I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I d... 
I don't know rap. I can't tell you a Tupac song. But you put on some go-go, and I'll kno... 
As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don... 
What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it'... 
I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If... 
You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... 
I actually prefer film to TV, but I don't know why. I think there's just a different energy. 
My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through... 
If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, 'Why am I watching thi... 
I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews. 
But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've ne... 
I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't wan... 
There's always room for your hard-core country songs, and that will always shine through, and I&... 
If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll alway... 
If it's a good movie, it's a good movie. I don't care about the genres. 
I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That'... 
Some Sundays, I read it quickly - other Sundays, I savor it. I generally spend most of my time in &#... 
It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that.... 
There's a lot of annoying things about me. I don't know, I'm really shy at first, and I ... 
Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better. 
I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work. 
A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you s... 
Prison is designed to separate, isolate, and alienate you from everyone and everything. You're not a... 
If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning. 
If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning. 