Damien Chazelle

What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?

If there's a good review, I'll skip over the headline, but I always find the bad reviews and read those. I don't know why. It's a little sick and demented.

I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.

Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.