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As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college.
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My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.
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I love the ending of 'The Wrestler.'
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Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get it right.
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I'm a terrible procrastinator.
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I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.
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Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009.
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What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?
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If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
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At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.
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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
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I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
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I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
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My hands were constantly blistered or bloody; my ears were always ringing. I tore through drumheads and drumsticks like there was no tomorrow.
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.
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'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw with drummers.
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By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue it.
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I feel like a lot of directing is casting.
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In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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I tend to latch on to things and not let go.
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It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me.
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I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.
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The greatest thing has been that projects that were pipe dreams before 'Whiplash' are now feeling more realistic.
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I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
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Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.
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Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.
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I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.
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As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.
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I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.
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I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently sympathetic.
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I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
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My first movie was totally improvised.
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I handle screenings and award ceremonies really badly.
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My version of a stress dream is, really, showing up on a concert stage with a drum set and not knowing the chart.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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