Damien Chazelle Quotes
As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college.
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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
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Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.
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I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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'The Big Chill' had a bunch of really talented actors, a great soundtrack, and the college connections that the characters shared. It's one of those movies I glean something different from every time I watch it.
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I was a really big kid.
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I immigrated to the United States in 2001 for college.
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Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.
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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
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I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were working on it and deciding if it was something we wanted to put on the record.
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I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.
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When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.
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There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.
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For years, there was no man in the house when my husband was off on law cases in the Far East. Without writing, I would have been bored and unfaithful, maybe both, and the children would have been hideously over-protected.
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My generation was the turning point. Women older than us didn't expect to have jobs or careers; those younger did. But we were where it was changing - which is interesting but uncomfortable.
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I do think the story in Halloween 5 is a bit stupid, and there's a lot more blood. They're obviously going to take the Halloween series in a different direction.
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I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't think anybody else does.
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I've lived a fast-paced life, but I had the best childhood. I didn't miss out on anything by having my daughter at a young age.
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As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college.
