American film composer and a television writer, born 22 January 1985.
His favorite film of all time is The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. He claimed to always go watch it every time it plays on the big screen.
Graduated from Harvard, which is also where he met fellow collaborator and best friend, Damien Chazelle.
[on his time at Harvard, working with writer-director Damien Chazelle],Damien and I really bonded over this shared philosophy sophomore year,of working really hard and sacrificing . . . I remember we would really,egg each other on and make each other feel guilty for not working hard,enough. And we just had a lot of conversations about how we both wanted,to be really, really good at what we do, and what it would take.
[on composing La La Land (2016)] it was two and a half years of nonstop,work, going to bed into the wee hours of the night - 1,900 piano demos.
