Damien Chazelle
Related J. K. SIMMONS As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's... CHARLIE HADEN Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no j... ART BLAKEY NICK CANNON PAT METHENY This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't transla... BILL EVANS Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's... MARK MORRIS I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools a... CHRISETTE MICHELE DEYTH BANGER As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by t... TAYLOR HANSON DOUGLAS ADAMS I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart fr... NORMAN GRANZ GREG GRAFFIN It's just a campy blast. I just want to do as little as I can and make it good, and try not to s... DAVID SPADE I really enjoy the magazine aspect and I want to work somewhere youthful and energetic. LAUREN NOLL Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... JEFFREY FRY MARTIN SCORSESE Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.... ART BLAKEY DAVID ARCHULETA The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO IGGY AZALEA DAVID SEDARIS LEWIS CARROLL CHARLES SAATCHI Jazz sometimes can be really complicated and inaccessible to people because they don't know what... CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT MEGAN FOX Some people thought I was using my popularity as a singer to sell my first novel. For others, it was... CHICO BUARQUE Once you start trying to sell creativity, you're always going to run into the problem that the p... DAVE PIRNER I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played... ALEXIS KORNER In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking peo... GLEN HANSARD Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI In six years, this was not the first time they had found themselves inJACQUELINE FRANCIS - WANTING TO REMEMBER, TRYING TO FORGET To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL COREY TAYLOR Emotions are messy and hard to figure out. Hard to know where you start and the next person stops. E... SPIKE JONZE When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and a... JACK REYNOR Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON DOUGLAS ADAMS Europe, partly because of the sort of political miracle it accomplished on the European continent, h... ROBERT KAGAN Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really. AL YANKOVIC CRAIG GROESCHEL JEAN-LUC GODARD Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeli... BILL EVANS Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the mo... JENNY HOLZER CHRISTINA ENGELA For some reason, being on time in this industry can be a lost art form, especially for actors! It... BECCA TOBIN ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or ju... ROBERT PLANT ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I want to play a range, from victims to strong people, just as long as it's a well-rounded chara... BEL POWLEY C. JOYBELL C. JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people... RITA COOLIDGE Tap dancing is like... it's equivalent to music, not only for the African American community, bu... SAVION GLOVER CHLOE THURLOW Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man&... C. THOMAS HOWELL JOE ROGAN ZARA LARSSON I always used to say I'm definitely not a straight-ahead jazz singer, because then there's p... GRETCHEN PARLATO I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES People who don't do jazz think it's black magic. But really, it's just a matter of getti... ANDRE PREVIN I think I've kind of been mistaken for somebody who's trying to be a spokesperson for animal... NEKO CASE It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON [Does Piazza feel jazz is an acquired taste?] If by 'acquired taste' you mean that jazz resists imme... TOM PIAZZA And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and com... WENDELL PIERCE People are treating the Stewart case as seriously as Enron when it's really over trivia. ALLAN SLOAN He has been told not to say too much. It was a fantastic piece of fielding. It was certainly interes... GORDON PRATT I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz ma... WADADA LEO SMITH Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes o... LEV YILMAZ I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pil... BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it's worth putti... ISAAC BROCK PLATON People think it's suspect and self-indulgent to make art, and I don't think that's true.... DANA SPIOTTA ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH MARCEL PROUST When somebody uses a word as a genre distinction, all it really does is trigger certain experiences,... GERALD CLAYTON Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other,... FRANK GEHRY Acting is an art form. If you are not creating something that's unusual and informative and at l... BRUCE GLOVER The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that ... 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I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew. DAMIEN CHAZELLE I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I handle screenings and award ceremonies really badly. DAMIEN CHAZELLE It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into o... DAMIEN CHAZELLE The greatest thing has been that projects that were pipe dreams before 'Whiplash' are now fe... DAMIEN CHAZELLE It's easy to show terrible people's behavior on screen, and we all just kind of nod and go, ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE 'La La Land' is about the city I live in. It's about the music that I grew up playing; i... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific disci... DAMIEN CHAZELLE Nothing is guaranteed to last, so you should just enjoy it as it happens. DAMIEN CHAZELLE I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel. DAMIEN CHAZELLE I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills. DAMIEN CHAZELLE By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to v... DAMIEN CHAZELLE One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art f... DAMIEN CHAZELLE My version of a stress dream is, really, showing up on a concert stage with a drum set and not knowi... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and t... DAMIEN CHAZELLE My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I guess I'm kind of interested in that elusive search for a bond between life and work and betwe... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode. DAMIEN CHAZELLE I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almos... DAMIEN CHAZELLE There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion. DAMIEN CHAZELLE I like a set to be a happy place, where people can feel free to experiment. DAMIEN CHAZELLE There something to be said for having even unrealistic dreams. Even if the dreams don't come tru... DAMIEN CHAZELLE When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I remember when I first met Jason Reitman with the 'Whiplash' script; he quickly became a me... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day. DAMIEN CHAZELLE I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements an... DAMIEN CHAZELLE As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain. DAMIEN CHAZELLE In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all a... DAMIEN CHAZELLE The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it beca... DAMIEN CHAZELLE It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWI... DAMIEN CHAZELLE If there's a good review, I'll skip over the headline, but I always find the bad reviews and... DAMIEN CHAZELLE When someone is playing drums, they aren't actually moving around a space; they're just movi... DAMIEN CHAZELLE People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like lookin... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the mov... DAMIEN CHAZELLE My first movie was totally improvised. DAMIEN CHAZELLE If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as t... DAMIEN CHAZELLE What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history bec... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winte... DAMIEN CHAZELLE Whiplash' was just a lucky kind of convergence of events in that I'd been trying to get a bi... DAMIEN CHAZELLE The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well e... DAMIEN CHAZELLE The first thing I did as a child was draw. I wanted to make animated movies. I think Disney's &#... DAMIEN CHAZELLE If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not re... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not re... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots. DAMIEN CHAZELLE There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a pra... DAMIEN CHAZELLE There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a pra... DAMIEN CHAZELLE First time that I cried at a work of art was at a drum solo that I saw. A drummer named Winard Harpe... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and s... DAMIEN CHAZELLE In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I&... DAMIEN CHAZELLE 'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I ge... DAMIEN CHAZELLE Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. Th... DAMIEN CHAZELLE At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this k... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so t... DAMIEN CHAZELLE There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searc... DAMIEN CHAZELLE People aren't inherently sympathetic. DAMIEN CHAZELLE What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing an... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I tend to latch on to things and not let go. DAMIEN CHAZELLE If you want to make a movie, there may be many forces trying to pull you down, but really, a lot of ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your s... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers... DAMIEN CHAZELLE Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker. DAMIEN CHAZELLE I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz. DAMIEN CHAZELLE Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pre... DAMIEN CHAZELLE Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musica... DAMIEN CHAZELLE 'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw wi... DAMIEN CHAZELLE It's a weird thing where, especially in jazz, you have to totally mention cutting sessions and p... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I think there is something to be said for not coddling people and not accepting good as good enough. DAMIEN CHAZELLE I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I'm a terrible procrastinator. DAMIEN CHAZELLE As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college. DAMIEN CHAZELLE I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drum... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.' DAMIEN CHAZELLE Certainly, grades only matter so much when you're in Hollywood. But I became an utterly motivate... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I'm too self-serious for a comedy. DAMIEN CHAZELLE Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your hea... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I like the idea of working my way up. I don't feel impatient to immediately jump into something ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE There's something about some of my favorite musicals that they put me in a sort of heightened st... DAMIEN CHAZELLE There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptation... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of... DAMIEN CHAZELLE DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to expre... DAMIEN RICE Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and ... DAMIEN RICE I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying... DAMIEN RICE I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I'd ever had. And it was also the... DAMIEN RICE I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and th... DAMIEN RICE Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate v... DAMIEN RICE I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to... DAMIEN RICE There's a Nina Simone record that I love, 'Live at Vine Street,' and she sings flat on i... DAMIEN RICE I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that... DAMIEN RICE Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or gro... DAMIEN RICE I'm not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don... DAMIEN RICE I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are ch... DAMIEN RICE I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame. DAMIEN RICE I've learned very, very, very clearly that money does not equal happiness or security, either. DAMIEN RICE Everyone is capable of everything. DAMIEN RICE I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and sa... DAMIEN RICE Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able t... DAMIEN RICE The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zo... DAMIEN RICE When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the wr... DAMIEN RICE The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't f... DAMIEN RICE I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is con... DAMIEN RICE A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be ... DAMIEN RICE I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see any... DAMIEN RICE Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again. DAMIEN RICE When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto o... DAMIEN RICE I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortab... 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When I read the script and saw the jazz music setting, and when I read the name of the filmmaker was... 
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep i... 
Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! 
In the beginning the Universe was created.
I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most r... 
Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. 
Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz. 
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviousl... 
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How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don't generally see art as a c... 
People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find th... 
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He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. 
To be or not to be. That's not really a question. 
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Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... 
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To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it... 
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. 
Although not considered a martial art, boxing is really a martial art. It's a very limited marti... 
I have some friends, and they're super-hipster. And they're like, 'All I wanna do is sin... 
I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pil... 
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The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... 
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The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... 
Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better. 
I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work. 
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If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning. 