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I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the language that musicians can use to treat each other or, like, the way that you can see it dehumanize and the way that it can feel like boot camp.

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: Boot Boot Camp Camp Deep Each Enough Fears Feel Go Language Like Many Movies Music Musicians Other Playing Really See Seen Treat Use Way You

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The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have without this really tough conductor and this really cutthroat hostile environment I was in.

~Damien Chazelle

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'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw with drummers.

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: Always Because Designed Drummers Hated Most Screw Song

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It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced. The snare drum comes from the military and becomes the core kind of sound of jazz drums.

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: Army Bands Became Becomes Big Certainly Coincidence Core Drum Drumming Drums Entertainment Influenced Jazz Kind Military Snare Sound Style Very Wwii

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I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing.

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: About Actually Built City Energizing Find Kind Movie Movies Really Romantic Something Surreal Weird

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If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I've always found it so fascinating.

~Damien Chazelle

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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

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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.

~Damien Chazelle

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I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.

~Damien Chazelle

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It's easy to show terrible people's behavior on screen, and we all just kind of nod and go, 'Isn't that terrible.' It's more interesting when you can show terrible behavior in the interest of something good.

~Damien Chazelle

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: January 19th, 1985

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