I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
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… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost. — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I had seen a lot of music movies that celebrated music or that showed the kind of joys from playing music, which… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion. — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I was interested in music and making movies about musicians, but my own experiences, and doing what it felt like for me… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
It's a weird thing where, especially in jazz, you have to totally mention cutting sessions and people one-upping each other and people… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the language that musicians… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation,… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
There are a few musicians that I know who seem on the outside like very asocial or somewhat unemotional people, people who… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
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… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share
In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share
Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share
It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person -… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share
It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me. — Damien Chazelle Copy Share
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… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share
I was interested in music and making movies about musicians, but my own experiences, and doing what it felt like for me to be… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share
There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion. — Damien Chazelle Copy Share
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… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share
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 Copy Share
If you want to make a movie, there may be many forces trying to pull you down, but really, a lot of it is… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share
I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share
