Damien Chazelle Specific Quotations

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 like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.

When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.

There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out of tune, or stopping and starting me for hours in front of the band as they watched.