Damien Chazelle Quotes
'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw with drummers.
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I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.
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People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided I'll be a legend.
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
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Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.
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We always go into a game to win.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.
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Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.
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From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.
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Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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I'm always investing. I'm constantly in talks with someone about some opportunity.
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I've always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little.
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I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours.
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I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.
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Every song that I've done is me in one way or another.
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We don't sit down and look at the news pages and think, 'How could we do an episode about that?'
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I was always pretty ambitious, although it probably helps that I can't do anything else - apart from cleaning lavatories. But I remember my mum once said, 'I suppose you'll give it a year and see if you can make it as an actress?' And I said, 'No Mum, I think I'll give it 10.'
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There must be a lot of shy actor in puppeteering. His work is the puppeteer's statement. It's his outlet. If I had to face the audience myself, as Jim Henson, I'm sure I'd be just a bit shy. But when it's your puppets that face the audience, it's different. That I can do very easily.
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'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw with drummers.
