DAMIEN CHAZELLE Well, I was lucky, just in the sense that I wrote La La Land before Whiplash and the best thing that happened to me was everyone saying no to La La Land.
But the whole time I was making Whiplash, I was hoping if this doesn’t entirely suck, it will give me some kind of calling card to make La La Land.
CHAZELLE It was like, years of trying to get La La Land made in Hollywood, everyone saying not just no, but, like, “Please go away.
Should things keep going the way they’re currently going for writer/director Damian Chazelle, not only will the 31-year-old Oscar nominee’s name become synonymous with critically acclaimed filmmaking, but his latest feature La La Land will be the talk of Hollywood in 2017.