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

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 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.

So many things people say may seem so good and right

Anyone that has a music career and an acting career I think is pretty fantastic.

My way has always worked. My way is what got me here.

Sometimes you finish the poem, and that last piece clicks in place. Sometimes the poem is finished with you.

Falling in love is like submerging beneath the ocean with a submarine; you leave the outside world and wander in the silence of dimness.

To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free.

Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only the surface... .

The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.

One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.

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