Damien Chazelle Quotes
By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue it.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
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I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
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We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
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Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.
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Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
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School taught me how to do a 9-5 job rather than be a person who wants to start a business.
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As computers have become more powerful, computer graphics have advanced to the point where it's possible to create photo-realistic images. The bottleneck wasn't, 'How do we make pixels prettier?' It was, 'How do we engage with them more?'
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By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue it.
