I can't make a film that I don't feel comfortable with.

I've done collaborations in all my movies, and I think it's part of what I enjoy about the process. This kind of intimacy that you create. Because it becomes very intimate.

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 grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers.

We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme.

The idea of narcissism, essentially, is and will be accepted as a virtue.

Only God Forgives was very much a generation gap in a way. It was all the youth of the world that embraced it. I make films for young people. That's what I will continue to do.