Damien Chazelle Quotes

I've always been real close to film world. I love film, and I will do things in film, but music is more satisfying. It feels more like me.

I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.

I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

I moved to L.A. to write and direct. I had no intentions of being in front of the camera.

I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby.

I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.

As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.

I've dedicated more than 15 years to this theater and television thing; I want to spend the next 10, 15 years or so devoted to music.

I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.

When I'm shooting films, I write and play music when I come home.

Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and I have a life in the filmmaking world, and so I want to explore all aspects of it, not just the acting, but acting is the root.

I was always into music, but I wanted to do film when I was kid. I remember seeing big movies and wanting to do them. Then I was lucky enough to act in some of them, and I fell in love with it.

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.

I was always interested in film, but I never knew how to go about becoming a filmmaker.

I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.

Music is by no means something I was like, 'I'm going to make a career out of this!' It's the only thing I know how to do, so it was more like, 'I hope to God I can make a career out of this!'

I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.

I was working at a non-profit for five years. But I could always create music after work. All throughout those years, I was writing songs and recording music and performing around town.

As a child, I was always very interested in music and had friends who were in the music business. I kind of accidentally fell into it and loved it. There was no reason not to - it was a great career.

When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.

As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.

I knew I wanted to be in music, but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at Rolling Stone to writing heavy metal fanzines to playing in a high-school band, and I think all those things probably helped in a way.

The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.