Damien Chazelle Specific Quotations

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.

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.

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

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.