How can creativity be bad? You can have, "I liked it" or "I didn't like it," but, in the end, it's an individual experience. How can you even begin to define that? I find that sometimes extremely arrogant and counter-productive.

Man's fear of sexuality is the basis of all horror from the male perspective.

Everything we do is about the emotion of the characters. We believe the better the emotion, the better the movie.

Jenna Malone was a very important piece of how the film [The Neon Demon] turned out.

In the end, self-indulgence is very much about your ego and your vanity and your own id. The more you can indulge in it, the more pleasurable it becomes. And then when it feeds out, it's able to penetrate the mind and create a reaction.

The world needs change, change needs an activity. It has to be planted by a thought.

Beauty is on one level pure surface, and on the other hand, it's the most complex subject that we can touch upon because it says everything about us as people. It's a subject we very quickly begin to argue about. I think that's so interesting.