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I'm a terrible procrastinator.

~Damien Chazelle

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I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently sympathetic.

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: Go Idea Inherently Kind Like Make Me People Person Sit Sympathetic Viewer

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I think there is something to be said for not coddling people and not accepting good as good enough.

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: Accepting Enough Good People Said Something Think I Think

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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

Topics: About Army Art Art Form Band Big Big Band Big Part Feels Form Free General Improvisation Individual Interesting Interesting Thing Jazz Less Like Military More Part Real Sense Should Side Soldiers Spirits Such A Big Part Thing

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Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: Been Certainly College Did Films Forever Fred Ginger Had Kind Like Loved Musical Musicals Numbers Obsessed Short Short Films Some Stanley Things While

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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

Topics: About Breed Everything Feeling Form Improvisation Intensity Jazz Kind Liberation Like Look Mentality Music Should Sort Think Wanted You

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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

Topics: Avant-Garde Forms Genre Getting Interested Like Me More Musical Only Seemed Suddenly Through Wonderful

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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

Topics: Always Drop Going Ground Insecure Kind Myself Other Pessimist Shoe Waiting Way Weird Weird Way

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

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: Celebration Mode Never Pure

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'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: Degree Feel Feelings Get Me Motivated Only Projects Scare Scared Should Some Sort Those You I Feel

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: January 19th, 1985

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