I wanted to give the feeling of physical pain through music.

How do I balance out the kind of prettiness of the melodic music – which I enjoy – with the kind of brute force of trying to get the orchestra to kind of play a metal riff, which I also love?

It was like filming a music video but on a much bigger level x100! There’s so much storytelling that goes into a music video, but a whole movie… it’s a much bigger scale.

One of the things about The Midnight Club is that it celebrates different storytellers; it’s baked into its DNA.

I’m a huge fan. He creates these brilliant universes, but I think what makes him special are his very human characters.

To me, the idea of using genre, even if it’s just thriller or something, feels truer to internal experience than something that’s a little bit more realistic.

There was not one extra frame that had the dog doing what it was supposed to do.

If you just look at the statistics, people are consuming so much porn. It’s not like people don’t see these images. But then we’re going to pretend like it doesn’t exist and that only comes with really negative consequences.

I’m always hungry for the stage. Whether it be musical or traditional theater, I’m always willing to go back on stage.

It’s a beautiful clusterfuck, the most go-go-go shit ever, there’s no breaks, there’s no fucking stops. There’s surprises around every corner and I’m really fucking proud of how it came out.

Between the movies and the music, it’s all one big adrenaline rush.

I don’t like horror movies. I don’t like being scared. I’m scared of everything! So I said to myself, “I will not put myself through this unless I have to, unless I get the role.” I got the role.

I loved shooting models, I don’t deny that. But on the other hand, in digital, you can endlessly fiddle and constantly improve the shots.

We never practice. I’ve lost hearing along the way. It’s really hard to play the show. I can barely hear myself onstage because sometimes the monitors aren’t that good.

I just want to go on stage, I want it to be hot, I want to sweat, I want people crowd surfing, I want to stage dive, I just want to go. Let’s just get back to rock and roll.

The thing I’ve learned the most, and it applies to any size movie, is collaboration. To be open to any idea. You can get great ideas from great actors, you may get a great idea from a PA on set, you can get a great idea anywhere.

I always want to make sure that I play characters that are as vastly different to the ones I’ve played before because as we know, pigeonholing is a real thing. So I want to be sure to try everything. Keeps it exciting.

I’m always arguing “Universal, just give me one day catering on The Fast and the Furious.” That’s all I want.