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.

Look at the birth of anything; it's always more violent than anything you could ever imagine.

I think that I am a pornographer, meaning that I make movies based on what excites me and what I would like to see.

I woke up one day and I realized I wasn't born beautiful, but my wife was, so I decided to make a horror film about it: what it would be like to be born beautiful.

Personally I kept my feelings out of it and created a fantasy. That's the process of going through this world being beautiful.

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.

Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.