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.

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 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.

You have worked too long in the life, now its time for heroism.

Those who want to get wet need no umbrella!

The sky is the limit when you work hard.

The most fundamental and the most important aspect of the spiritual process can in no way be stopped by anybody - except yourself.

Success tastes that much sweeter when you have people to share it with.

It depends on where you put the paint, not how much you splash on.

Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.

With guests who are 'in the middle of the fight,' we're able to hear their point-of-view on the topics, as well as advance our own feelings.

Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.

People pretend things didn't happen. Or so what, they happened, it's okay. Well, it's never okay. It's always ruined.