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 find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Practicing is not normally fun. Sometimes people say they're practicing, but they're really just enjoying themselves and the instrument. That's not real… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I was really trying to sell to people who hate jazz: to make a case for the art form as youthful and… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
My version of a stress dream is, really, showing up on a concert stage with a drum set and not knowing the… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
If you want to make a movie, there may be many forces trying to pull you down, but really, a lot of… — 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
The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to… — 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
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 didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't… — 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
