My movie [The Neon Demon] is a hyper-version of the obsession with beauty. As this crazy obsession grows, longevity does not. Everything seems to become younger and younger. The girls and people around them cannibalize themselves.

I think the idea was to make a horror film that became a science-fiction film with a lot of melodramatic tropes.

I always think once you have the lead protagonist, you cast around that character.

I feel that silence is the greatest word, ever. When you don't talk, people begin to read things into you or you become what they long for. When you don't talk, you almost become the mirror image of the other person.

[Liv Corfixen] very much part of my life in that she's everything in my life and we found a way to use each other much more on a creative level as well. She was kind of the idea for this movie so I wanted to acknowledge that. She gave me the original idea to make the film.

I think that's the struggle of our normality is that we have oppressed desires because of what is accepted and not accepted in society.

Creativity is very self-indulgent.