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
Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009. — 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
'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts… — 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
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
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
There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I remember when I first met Jason Reitman with the 'Whiplash' script; he quickly became a mentor figure who guided me through… — 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
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
