My initial idea was I wanted to make it a horror film, very much. At times I do enter that world.

The more we become civilized, the more we simultaneously understand our need to be virtuous, and our need to understand our experiences on a subconscious level.

There's incredible effect in being either loved or hated, but knowing that, either way, you have penetrated the mind and have altered it; that is a very pleasurable feeling.

The character requires so many elements. The only one who could fulfill that was this one person: Elle Fanning.

Actually, there was one sequence but Liv didn't put this in but at the end of the movie, we ran out of money. Literally, ran out. And I couldn't make payroll. So I emptied all our accounts to make payroll. We were kinda like, "What do we do?" Then out of the blue, we were saved by Gucci. So it's always been like, you just gotta reach for the stars and hopefully the moon will catch you.

Reaction is what changes your understanding of the world.

I think that experiencing through art is a wonderful way to expand the horizon and everything around it.