Damien Chazelle Quotes
I guess I'm kind of interested in that elusive search for a bond between life and work and between compassion and competitiveness. There's always something at the end you have to find to live a full life, but it's hard to find.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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I am a just man.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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When I am with my family, then I can just sort of switch off. It's kind of weird, because I go back and I go into this bedroom that I have had since I was a teenager. It is like this parallel universe, because one minute I am on the red carpet and then the next I am hiding out in this room I have had since I was 15.
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A manifesto is different from a magazine.
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I think it would be great to have more female directors making huge-budget movies.
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When you get old and play every day like I did, it's hard. Hard on your body. You start to get sore. You gain weight. But that makes me work harder, be stronger in my mind, and show I can still play.
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I guess I'm kind of interested in that elusive search for a bond between life and work and between compassion and competitiveness. There's always something at the end you have to find to live a full life, but it's hard to find.
