Damien Chazelle Quotes

All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I was a little kid, I hadn't afforded myself the opportunity, I guess, to have a hobby.

You gotta love this thing. Whatever you choose to pursue - medicine, law, writing, you have to love it. You study it, you eat it, you drink it, you try it, you do it, you love it in every way.

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.

I tend to obsess over my passions.

If I am not deeply passionate about a certain project then I will let it be.

For me, work is both a hobby and a passion. And sometimes an obsession.

You can be anybody you want to be as long as you're obsessed.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Football is all I know.

Sports is my passion.

If you really want something bad enough, if you're really interested in something enough, you know, you just keep working on it.

I'm sometimes willing to put in vast, even inordinate amounts of time if I find a project that interests me.

I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.

I hadn't been practicing or playing or anything. But that had been a vital part of my life.

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

You can't connect with something you're not passionate about.

I like passionate fandom.

We only take on projects that we're really passionate about.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

I love working with people who are inspired and obsessive.

I'm very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can't imagine a life without passion.

I can appreciate anybody's passion for anything.

I'm very passionate about what I do.