I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a practice room by yourself, unable to… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I like the idea of working my way up. I don't feel impatient to immediately jump into something that could literally bring… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre… — 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
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
If you're on the varsity team, the responsibilities are a lot bigger and there's more stress, but you also walk around feeling… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that… — 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
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
Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
My hands were constantly blistered or bloody; my ears were always ringing. I tore through drumheads and drumsticks like there was no… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world. — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I like a set to be a happy place, where people can feel free to experiment. — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful… — 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
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 a lot… — 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 to be… — 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
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 Image
