Always Quote by Damien Chazelle

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

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

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

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

I love the ending of 'The Wrestler.'

— Damien Chazelle

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

I feel like a lot of directing is casting.

— Damien Chazelle

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

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

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

— Damien Chazelle

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

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