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Damien Chazelle
Damien Chazelle
American Director
Born: Jan 19, 1985
Always Jazz Me Music People You
Related authors: David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Spike Lee Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen
Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009. Damien Chazelle
Me First Back Hustle Give Give Me Attention First-Person Person Manager Any Certainly Gary
I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit. Damien Chazelle
You School Own Bit High High School More Adulthood Feel Like Person Get Little Little Bit Your Assert Start
I'm a terrible procrastinator. Damien Chazelle
Terrible
'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw with drummers. Damien Chazelle
Song Hated Most Drummers Because Always Screw Designed
I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything. Damien Chazelle
Music You Feeling Jazz Think Everything Liberation Kind About Mentality Like Look Sort Improvisation Intensity Wanted Form Breed Should
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 other shoe to drop. Damien Chazelle
Myself Waiting Drop Pessimist Other Way Kind Insecure Weird Weird Way Always Shoe Going Ground
My first movie was totally improvised. Damien Chazelle
First Totally Improvised Movie
I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters. Damien Chazelle
Life Matters Living Think City Easy Wrapped Weekend Divorced Announcement Trades Up Very Get Social Social Life Whole Actually
There are a few musicians that I know who seem on the outside like very asocial or somewhat unemotional people, people who aren't capable of emotions, and people think they're very cold inside. Damien Chazelle
Musicians People Emotions Few Think Cold Inside Seem Somewhat Outside Like Know Very Capable Who
Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them. Damien Chazelle
Tears Pour Before String Would Had No-One Failed Like Blood Scripts Them Sweat
If there's a good review, I'll skip over the headline, but I always find the bad reviews and read those. I don't know why. It's a little sick and demented. Damien Chazelle
Good Sick Those Bad Find Headline Over Demented Know Read Always Review Reviews Little Skip Why
I like the idea of working my way up. I don't feel impatient to immediately jump into something that could literally bring down a studio if I don't do it well. Damien Chazelle
Down Way Immediately Something Impatient Could Studio Idea Feel Like Well Up Jump Literally Working Bring
Nothing is guaranteed to last, so you should just enjoy it as it happens. Damien Chazelle
You Nothing Enjoy Just Happens Should Last Guaranteed
What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that? Damien Chazelle
Love Great You Dance Energy Musicals About Sing How Stopping Story
What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar. Damien Chazelle
Love History Jazz City About Myths New Because New Orleans Oral Legends Kansas Kansas City Full Radar Orleans Started
My hands were constantly blistered or bloody; my ears were always ringing. I tore through drumheads and drumsticks like there was no tomorrow. Damien Chazelle
Tomorrow Ears Ringing Constantly Through Like Always Were Bloody Hands
I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams. Damien Chazelle
Dreams Make Always Fever Wanted Movies
I feel like a lot of directing is casting. Damien Chazelle
Directing Casting Feel Like Lot
Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker. Damien Chazelle
Born Charlie Charlie Parker Parker Mozart
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 practice. Damien Chazelle
People Sometimes Practice Say People Say Instrument Practicing Real Normally Just Themselves Really Fun Enjoying
I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter. The conductor would just rip into me, and it lasted for years. Damien Chazelle
Work Good Me Sense Good Ideas Lasted Musically Would Rip Pretty Tempo Seems Had Stuff Like Ideas Blind Terrible Stick Always Doing Years Impressive Conductor Tasteful Just Decent Being Which Really Painter Fast
When someone is playing drums, they aren't actually moving around a space; they're just moving their arms and limbs. They're stuck behind the drum set. So to film someone playing the drums and make it feel as kinetic as a car chase or a shootout or a battle scene was the challenge. Damien Chazelle
Battle Space Car Challenge Kinetic Someone Scene Chase Stuck Feel Drum Drum Set Drums Make Arms Limbs Around Behind Just Moving Film Actually Playing Set
I'm too self-serious for a comedy. Damien Chazelle
Comedy Too
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