[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.

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

I like the early comic book characters more than the new ones.

I don't believe that art makes people violent in any way. I don't. But I do believe art can show people how to be violent and that's much more dangerous in a way.

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

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.

The conversations about a film are an example of success because then you know whatever you've done has resonated.