Damien Chazelle Quotes
If you want to make a movie, there may be many forces trying to pull you down, but really, a lot of it is will power. You can will it into being if you just believe that you are going to make a movie.
Quotes to Explore
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
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Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.
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I don't want to be the policeman of Lebanon. It's not the business of Israel. Israel was not created to serve as a policeman of the region.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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I am really happy to see the number of entrepreneurs in India - not only because of the ideas they have but also because of the passion at which their ideas are put across.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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If you try hard enough, anything can happen.
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I know you'll probably get angry with me for that, shout, stamp your feet: "speak just for yourself and your miseries in the underground, and don't go saying 'we all.'" Excuse me, gentleman, but I am not justifying myself with this allishness. As far as I myself am concerned, I have merely carried to an extreme in my life what you have not dared to carry even halfway, and, what's more, you've taken your cowardice for good sense, and found comfort in thus deceiving yourselves. So that I, perhaps, come out even more "living" than you.
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In fact, I am a pessimist. But when I'm making a film, I don't want to transfer my pessimism onto children. I keep it at bay. I don't believe that adults should impose their vision of the world on children, children are very much capable of forming their own visions. There's no need to force our own visions onto them.
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I love 'Somebody to Love' by Queen and of course 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is one of my favorites, just because it makes everyone in the room go crazy. Everyone tries to sing along with it, and half the room gets it right and the other half gets it wrong.
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If you want to make a movie, there may be many forces trying to pull you down, but really, a lot of it is will power. You can will it into being if you just believe that you are going to make a movie.
