Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.


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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.
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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...
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I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE
Prison is designed to separate, isolate, and alienate you from everyone and everything. You're not a...
DAMIEN ECHOLS
If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.
DAMIEN CANNON
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...
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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
Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because...
DAMIEN HESS
If there's a good review, I'll skip over the headline, but I always find the bad reviews and...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE
When someone is playing drums, they aren't actually moving around a space; they're just movi...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE
If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.
DAMIEN CANNON
It's been a great spectacle -- I haven't done that for a while. It's a great opportunity to (score r...
DAMIEN MARTYN
You know when you've found it that's something I've learned, cause you feel it when they take it awa...
DAMIEN RICE
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
We're not enforcing our laws as strictly as we could. When you have a high percentage that is caused...
DAMIEN NEWTON
America's veterans have earned more than this President and the Republican Congress have provided. W...
DAMIEN LAVERA
The current EU statement is the latest in a very long list of warnings sent to the Government and Mi...
DAMIEN MULLEY
Carney? Gentlemen, start your Honeymooners references.
DAMIEN COX
These women are sophisticated and educated about fashion. People have a misconception that this is a...
DAMIEN VERNET