American - Director | January 19, 1985 -
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
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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.
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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.
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I tend to latch on to things and not let go.
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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?
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My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.
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I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
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I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best access the universal.
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My hands were constantly blistered or bloody; my ears were always ringing. I tore through drumheads and drumsticks like there was no tomorrow.
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I feel like a lot of directing is casting.
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Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.
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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
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