The first task Chazelle put to the composer was to come up with a main theme.
When Chazelle and Hurwitz finally got the green light to make La La Land, they wrote and composed hand-in-hand. "The smartest decision I ever made was to latch on to him and not let go." "If he would have said no, our roads would have been very different and there certainly wouldn't have been a La La Land," the director says. Chazelle says the only reason he wrote that movie was because Hurwitz agreed to compose its music. That project became a prototype for La La Land: the acclaimed black-and-white independent musical, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench.
They were in a pop band together, and also collaborated on a senior thesis. Hurwitz went on to Harvard University, where he met Damian Chazelle. "I would say that Justin would fall into the latter category." "There are several different approaches to being lost - one would be to sort of swim with whatever tide is carrying you, and one would be to strike out and look," she says. But, Jacob says, Hurwitz was always a strong-willed, independent student who wasn't afraid of failing. "His senior year in high school, he learned the entire Beethoven's First Concerto and he played it with a community orchestra," she says.
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