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" I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter. "

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" I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day. "

" I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots. "

" Nothing is guaranteed to last, so you should just enjoy it as it happens. "

" If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated. "

" When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across. "

" I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the language that musicians can use to treat each other or, like, the way that you can see it dehumanize and the way that it can feel like boot camp. "

" I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain. "

" It's easy to show terrible people's behavior on screen, and we all just kind of nod and go, 'Isn't that terrible.' It's more interesting when you can show terrible behavior in the interest of something good. "

" If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I've always found it so fascinating. "

" The greatest thing has been that projects that were pipe dreams before 'Whiplash' are now feeling more realistic. "

Damien Chazelle

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" I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing. "

" The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have without this really tough conductor and this really cutthroat hostile environment I was in. "

" If you're on the varsity team, the responsibilities are a lot bigger and there's more stress, but you also walk around feeling probably like you can hold your head high. "

" The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable. "

" As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain. "

" I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost. "

" 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. "

" I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters. "

" My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be. "

" I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn't even really into jazz that much. "

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" People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that. "

" There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion. "