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The first thing I did as a child was draw. I wanted to make animated movies. I think Disney's 'Cinderella' was the first movie I ever saw. 'Peter Pan' was the first movie I ever saw in the movie theater. I grew up with 'Dumbo' and 'Pinocchio' and 'Sword in the Stone.' Those were the movies I wanted to make.

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: Animated Child Cinderella Did Disney Draw Ever First First Thing Grew Make Movie Movie Theater Movies Pan Peter Peter Pan Saw Stone Sword The First Thing Theater Thing Think Those Up Wanted Were I Think

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Certainly, grades only matter so much when you're in Hollywood. But I became an utterly motivated, devoted, committed student. I was a good student because I was convinced that it would somehow help me in my quest to become a filmmaker.

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: Became Because Become Certainly Committed Convinced Devoted Filmmaker Good Good Student Grades Help Hollywood Matter Me Motivated Much Only Quest Somehow Student Utterly Would You

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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: After College Get Ground Just Moving Moving Out Off Out Remember Scripts Starting Straight Stuff Try Trying Write I Remember

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Whiplash' was just a lucky kind of convergence of events in that I'd been trying to get a bigger project off the ground with no success for a while, and then finally, out of frustration, I just wrote this leaner, meaner, personal script about my experiences as a jazz drummer, and that's the one that wound up getting made.

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: About Been Bigger Convergence Drummer Events Experiences Finally Frustration Get Getting Ground Jazz Just Kind Lucky Made Meaner Off Out Personal Project Script Success Then Trying Up While Wound Wrote

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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: Anything Conductor Desperately Drummer Fear Future Jazz Lot Motivated Never Wanted

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I guess I'm kind of interested in that elusive search for a bond between life and work and between compassion and competitiveness. There's always something at the end you have to find to live a full life, but it's hard to find.

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: Always Between Bond Compassion Competitiveness Elusive End Find Full Full Life Guess Hard Interested Kind Life Live Search Something Work You

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There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a practice room by yourself, unable to master a simple thing like a rudiment. You keep trying to master this very basic thing, and when you don't get it, you just scream. I broke a lot of drum heads, and I broke a lot of sticks.

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: About Alone Basic Broke Drum Feel Get Heads Just Keep Kind Like Lot Master Particular Practice Rage Room Scream Simple Something Sticks Thing Trying Unable Very You Yourself

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There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: Adaptation Being Broadway Catalog Interest Just Large-Scale Made Me Much Musicals Now Original Right

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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: American Want

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People aren't inherently sympathetic.

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: Inherently People Sympathetic

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: January 19th, 1985

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