Damien Chazelle

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.

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?

Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get it right.

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.

The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it also means I can't take my foot off the gas pedal.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.