ANDREW: But do you think there’s a line? You know, where you discourage the next Charlie Parker from becoming Charlie Parker?FLETCHER: No. Because the next Charlie Parker would never be discouraged.

The greatest thing has been that projects that were pipe dreams before 'Whiplash' are now feeling more realistic.

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.

I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.

I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.

I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing.

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

'La La Land' is about the city I live in. It's about the music that I grew up playing it's about movies that I grew up watching. Even the big spectacle of the movie feels private to me in that way.

I'd do anything for you, Tessa. I know you don't realize that now, but you will.

A photograph is a click away. A good photograph is a hundred clicks away and a better one, a thousand clicks away

Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it.

To live in the past is to die in the present.

Trying to get your sexual partner to make a monogamous commitment to you is not a loving thing to do; it's selfish.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work... if you love your work, you will find your reward in that.

I've been in the danger zone

It's cheaper to keep her.

And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you-- it's born with us the day that we are born.