Damien Chazelle Life Quotations

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.

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.

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

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