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- Macbeth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
- Exaggerating
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
- Drummer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was interested in music and making movies about musicians, but my own experiences, and doing what it felt like for me to be a drummer? Nah, I wasn't interested in that.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest thing has been that projects that were pipe dreams before 'Whiplash' are now feeling more realistic.
- I Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the ending of 'The Wrestler.'
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
- Grail
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician of any kind of caliber, your holy grail was to be in that orchestra. It was that claim to fame of the school, of the town, other than the university. But it was better than the university band.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power.
- Ceremonies
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- Nov 07, 2020
I handle screenings and award ceremonies really badly.
- Pay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn't even really into jazz that much.
- Drum Set
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- Nov 07, 2020
My version of a stress dream is, really, showing up on a concert stage with a drum set and not knowing the chart.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.
- Mentality
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the language that musicians can use to treat each other or, like, the way that you can see it dehumanize and the way that it can feel like boot camp.
- Big Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had seen a lot of music movies that celebrated music or that showed the kind of joys from playing music, which is a big part of it of course, and not something that I would want to deny.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a weird thing where, especially in jazz, you have to totally mention cutting sessions and people one-upping each other and people being super, super tough on each other. And out of it emerge these genius musicians.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.
- End Result
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- Nov 07, 2020
The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have without this really tough conductor and this really cutthroat hostile environment I was in.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember when I first met Jason Reitman with the 'Whiplash' script; he quickly became a mentor figure who guided me through the process and also protected me and made sure that when it came time to actually make 'Whiplash,' I was able to make exactly the movie I wanted to make.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.
- Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.
- Terrible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a terrible procrastinator.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020