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.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

I am a big one for subtlety and empathy. My dad was softly spoken and didn't carry his honours and accomplishments for everyone to see.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.