Experience Is A Great Teacher.

Sometimes Success Is Just Limited To Festival Circuit.

If You Want The Film [la La Land ] To Represent All Things Jazz, It Does Not. You'll Be Disappointed By That. But, If You Just See It As One Guy's Point Of View, One Filmmaker's Point Of View, And One Story Among Many Stories That Can Be Told About Jazz, Then It's Not As Much Of An Issue.

You See All These Things That Make You Feel Desperate Or Sad, But You Realize Changes Can Be Made, And It Doesn't Take A Lot Of Money On Our Part To Make A Change In People's Lives.

In My Neighborhood In Springfield, Ohio, There Were A Lot Of Young Kids. We All Played Tackle Football After School, But I Knew Very Early On That I Was Not An Athlete.

At The End Of The Day, There's Only A Few Major Stars In The Music Business, And Then There's All These People That Are Aspiring To Be That.