Think Quotes by Damien Chazelle

8 Think quotes by Damien Chazelle

Damien Chazelle’s film‑making rhythm translates into a few punchy observations about mental flow. Though limited in number, the quotes echo his kinetic storytelling style.

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When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So,…

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I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet'…

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There are a few musicians that I know who seem on the outside like very asocial or somewhat unemotional people, people who…

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I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole…

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I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.

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I think there is something to be said for not coddling people and not accepting good as good enough.

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The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a…

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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a…

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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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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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