Damien Chazelle Quotes
Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009.
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To me, it's impolite to go out shopping with no money.
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
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When I was younger, it was like, 'Yay, lesbians love me!' I didn't know there was a responsibility that came with it.
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I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York – New York helped give me my first big break.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
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For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
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I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.
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All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.
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There's not a blueprint for me to follow.
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To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
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How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
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The point of my music? The point I just want to get across is I'm me and I exist. Just letting people know who I am. Ever since I was young, I was the little attention grabber; I always loved attention. I want to grab people's attention. I want them listen to me and know that this is really good music. Whether they like it or not, they're gonna listen.
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I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
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Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
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Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009.
