Damien Chazelle Quotes

High school is really when I came into my own.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.

I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.

I think there's always a conflict within me about being comfortable and secure and then being an individual and fighting for what I want to be on an individual basis.

One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; that for me to define myself. and I think that helped me a lot in assuming a leadership position.

There are two metaphors for Mario the person and not Mario the footballer. I think I am a man, but I don't believe I need to say it. But I could also be Peter Pan because I do things my own way and I am free. So, yes, maybe I should say that I am Peter Pan - although I am much more of a man.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

I know how important it is to, you know, to be my own person.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf.

I think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're independent of your parents.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

Be yourself, take control of your life.

No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.

As I've gotten older and grown more independent, I think for myself, and that's how it should be.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.

I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.

At 13 years old, I was doing grown-man things, so I know who I am, and I'm telling people who I am.

I think I look more like me than my father's daughter now.

Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

People try to tell me like that, 'Oh, you shouldn't be proud,' or, 'You're not this,' or, 'You aren't that,' or whatever the hell. I'm just kinda here to say, like, who is anybody else to tell me who I am or what I've gone through or what I haven't gone through?

I am my own person with my own experiences, personality, and definition of success.

What I would tell everyone is don't lose your sense of individuality.