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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.


Damien Hirst

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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 Prison is designed to separate, isolate, and alienate you from everyone and everything. You're not a...
DAMIEN ECHOLS If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.
DAMIEN CANNON 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 Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because...
DAMIEN HESS 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 If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.
DAMIEN CANNON It's been a great spectacle -- I haven't done that for a while. It's a great opportunity to (score r...
DAMIEN MARTYN You know when you've found it that's something I've learned, cause you feel it when they take it awa...
DAMIEN RICE 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 We're not enforcing our laws as strictly as we could. When you have a high percentage that is caused...
DAMIEN NEWTON America's veterans have earned more than this President and the Republican Congress have provided. W...
DAMIEN LAVERA The current EU statement is the latest in a very long list of warnings sent to the Government and Mi...
DAMIEN MULLEY Carney? Gentlemen, start your Honeymooners references.
DAMIEN COX These women are sophisticated and educated about fashion. People have a misconception that this is a...
DAMIEN VERNET