Damien Chazelle
Related WALT DISNEY I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I con... LAURA VANDERVOORT It's always been a dream of mine to be Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse, and here I am performing a... SAMANTHA BOND GARY BUSEY There are people who have energy that say 'don't come near me, don't get too close.'... NATHAN FILLION When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me - I'm 43, balding, blond, whatev... JIM GAFFIGAN People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me... ZARA PHILLIPS BOOKER T. WASHINGTON UNKNOWN DEBI THOMAS I don't want to intimidate people. There's nothing bullyish about me, you know. If there'... DAVE BAUTISTA Do It Under the Influence Yourself! That's what we're shooting for! Get drunk and make your ... AZIZ ANSARI Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON LAWRENCE WELK HOWARD SCHULTZ Don't let your dreams be dreams. JACK JOHNSON JASON STATHAM When I'm Los Angeles, it's work. That's what I'm there for is work. DAKOTA GOYO AMANDA CREW As an older generation, we need to give all our young people love and the possibility of realizing t... KENNY LEON Anaheim is not like Los Angeles, where there are more people and more paparazzi. You don't have ... ALBERT PUJOLS Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it.... KARL MALONE EDDIE VEDDER I want to know everything there is to know about a specific area. And it's winning at that maste... BEN HUH MARTIN GARRIX VAN MORRISON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what y... BARBARA BILLINGSLEY JOHN LENNON My favorite role is mommy. I know that sounds cheesy to people who don't have kids, or there are... VANESSA LACHEY If you don't have dreams, you don't have a life. BRYCE HARPER Chase your dreams, even if you trip. ASHLEY BROOKE ROBBINS I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. AYUMI HAMASAKI There are indeed people with ulterior motives who don't wish Chinese swimming well; they even do... SUN YANG MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY There's a lot of people that have great ideas and dreams and whatnot, but unless you're will... KRIS JENNER Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even... CARLA GUGINO NICK CANNON You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't... CALLIE KHOURI SAM SMITH People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food. DOROTHY GILMAN ALICE SEBOLD There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color. LARRY POONS HALLE BERRY People don't seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these br... JONATHAN TURLEY You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't ... CALLIE KHOURI Movies like 'Chef' are not really box-office monsters in the summertime and don't really... JON FAVREAU AIMEE MULLINS DIANA ROSE MORCILLA Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot ... PAULA RADCLIFFE NELSON MANDELA CAROL GUZY BARRY SANDERS 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 BLANCHE LINCOLN LEONARD NIMOY LORETTA YOUNG EULA BISS I have very vivid dreams, and often - this happens to me at least a few times a week - I don't k... EUGENIE BOUCHARD The thing I wonder about is where does Brian's creative spark come from? Not his subjects or any... DENNIS WILSON I have one rave 'New York Times' review framed next to a flop 'Los Angeles Times' re... BRUCE VILANCH MEHMET MURAT ILDAN All the way on the West Coast, never having seen a Broadway show, it was like, 'They don't w... DAVEED DIGGS I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me. HALEY JOEL OSMENT JOAN JETT I want that longevity in the career, so if you don't know how to get it, you trying to chase tha... FUTURE I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to he... PATRICK ROY KATY PERRY BILL WATTERSON ELLEN GREENE Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy. LAYNE STALEY ADAM DEVINE CARRIE UNDERWOOD What do dreams matter if you lose yourself along the way? AMY FELLNER DOMINY When I audition for something, I don't even want to think about who the other actors are in it, ... LAUREN COHAN TIG NOTARO It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't c... BILLY HIGGINS WINNIE HOLZMAN When I'm auditioning for something, if it's not me, I really hope the part doesn't go to... RACHEL KELLER BRYSON TILLER These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive pla... CATHERINE KEENER Melanie thinks: when your dreams come true, your true has moved. You've already stopped being the pe... M.R. CAREY DIANA ROSE MORCILLA You want a friend who's going to tell you the truth. That's what it's about. If you don&... DONALD DRIVER I think education was the key for me, and that's what I tell kids. That base in the classics gav... JIMMY SMITS If I could have had everything exactly the way I wanted, this is how I would have written it down. W... RONDA ROUSEY I have no deep-seated desire to be famous; that's not what's driving me, so if it's some... CAM SEAN COMBS Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not ... BEN NICHOLSON It's a really scary thing, having your dreams come true and seeing everything you ever wanted ha... SAMAIRE ARMSTRONG EDDIE VAN HALEN TRACY CHAPMAN LL COOL J ED HELMS GARY ROSS A. R. RAHMAN I'm single. I just moved to a new city. I'm sort of starting over. I'm in Los Angeles. I... SUTTON FOSTER ADAM MCKAY You've got to have a dream... if you don't have any big dreams, nothing happens. IAN RUSH
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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 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 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 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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DAMIEN HESS DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST It's a gross misrepresentation to say gays were omitted from the grassroots report. African American... DAMIEN LAVERA Tomas has the excellent combination of a strong physical presence, agility and technical ability. DAMIEN COMOLLI It's a great budget. What we saw before was DOT trying to build its way out of congestion. DAMIEN NEWTON DAMIEN ECHOLS DAMIEN HIRST We've heard that they're appealing, and that's good, but they've lost a couple of cases. By all mean... DAMIEN NEWTON My eyes were closed, they're open now DAMIEN RICE Americans want change, not more of the same permanent commitment to a failed strategy in Iraq. DAMIEN LAVERA Everyone's nervous, once you hand over your weapons you're exposed. 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I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money ... 
I'll tell you this: You have to remember to chase and catch your dreams, because if you don'... 
If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams. 
There is some consolation in the fact that even if your dreams haven't come true- neither have your ... 
I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, an... 
Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or... 
What I would say to young entrepreneurs is there's so many moments in your life where you have t... 
At least in making an action film, there's always going to be someone who wants to see a car cha... 
I have mixed feelings about how fast things are changing as a result of technology. There's no d... 
I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's somethin... 
I want to show everyone that if you pursue your dreams, they can come true no matter what. That'... 
There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don&... 
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It al... 
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Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had. 
You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it... 
I haven't had an easy life, but at some point, you have to take responsibility for yourself and ... 
D.D.R.C.T. which stands for "Dreams Do Really Come True". Yes, I'm a firm believer about that. I can... 
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For the entire world, Los Angeles is a city of dreams, 
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In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed n... 
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The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking o... 
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Thank God even crazy dreams come true 
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I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work. 
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If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning. 