My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.
From Damien Chazelle
What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.
First time that I cried at a work of art was at a drum solo that I saw. A drummer named Winard Harper, part of the Billy Taylor Trio, gave back in - I would have been in high school - 2005 or something.
I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best access the universal.
I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and have for all of history.
My hands were constantly blistered or bloody; my ears were always ringing. I tore through drumheads and drumsticks like there was no tomorrow.
I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.
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