Make Quotes by Damien Chazelle

8 Make quotes by Damien Chazelle

Damien Chazelle’s eight short takes on making give a glimpse into the filmmaker’s mindset. Each line feels like a behind‑the‑scenes note, handy for anyone wanting a fast‑paced glimpse of his creative ethos.

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If you want to make a movie, there may be many forces trying to pull you down, but really, a lot of…

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I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so…

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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't…

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I was really trying to sell to people who hate jazz: to make a case for the art form as youthful and…

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I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.

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I remember when I first met Jason Reitman with the 'Whiplash' script; he quickly became a mentor figure who guided me through…

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I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.

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I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently…

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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.

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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…

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I was interested in music and making movies about musicians, but my own experiences, and doing what it felt like for me to be…

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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.

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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…

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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.

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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as…

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