Damien Chazelle Quotes

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

I moved to L.A. when I was 17 and started making movies six months later.

I'm not saying no to anything, at least as far as reading scripts. I don't care if it's television or films but, personally, I would say I'd like to establish myself more in film.

I made a conscious effort to focus on television so I could stay in Los Angeles, so I wasn't on a location all over the world doing movies.

When I was 23, I went to work for Jack Nicholson reading scripts. Later, I was married to a production designer named Richard Sylbert. So I lived in Los Angeles for ten years.

I've always had a love affair with New York City, and I've threatened to get an apartment there one day. But it just made sense for me to set 'Burlesque' on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. It's a place I know intimately well and love, and I think there's a great story to be told with L.A.

In my mid-20s, I was directing episodes of 'Alfred Hitchcock' and 'Peter Gunn.' I was pretty much on course and - as I sometimes joke - was prepared to devote my life to become the second best film director in my family.

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors.

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

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

I'm going to keep pursuing my dream, keep singing and, hopefully, move to L.A.

I've been so involved with TV shows, I've been unavailable for films, which is my dream.

I've acted just to get to directing.

Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?

L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

My ambition has always been to work with English and American actors and directors. Those were the movies that I was watching when I was growing up.

When the 'Fight Club' movie was going into production, I quit my job so I could write full-time.

I live in a small town in Connecticut, and they don't write scripts there, but I get them anyway because my agent is in Los Angeles.

If you want to write for films or TV, you must go to Hollywood.

I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.

People come to Los Angeles and sell their soul every day. It's sad.

I finished my junior year of high school and flew out to Los Angeles. I didn't know the difference between a manager and an agent. But I got here and just started hustling and meeting anyone I could.

I learned that getting a movie made in Hollywood is a near impossibility, and the process can be a wild adventure. TV is a lot more consistently productive - no offense to the beautiful world of feature film.

Everyone in L.A. talks about getting an agent or a manager in terms of getting on a sitcom or getting on a movie or doing something else.