Top 82 Quotes by Damien Chazelle

About Damien Chazelle

These are some quotes by American author Damien Chazelle Director, who was born on January 19, 1985.

It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.

It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.

Damien Chazelle

As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college.

As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college.

Damien Chazelle

One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is such a big part of it, so it feels like it should be less soldiers in an army and more like free spirits melding. And yet, big band jazz has a real military side to it.

Damien Chazelle

My hands were constantly blistered or bloody; my ears were always ringing. I tore through drumheads and drumsticks like there was no tomorrow.

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

I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.

I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.

Damien Chazelle

I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.

I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.

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.

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 love the ending of 'The Wrestler.'

I love the ending of 'The Wrestler.'

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 a drummer? Nah, I wasn't interested in that.

I was interested in music and making movies about musicians, but my own experiences, and doing what it felt like for me to be a drummer? Nah, I wasn't interested in that.

Damien Chazelle

I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.

I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.

Damien Chazelle

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