When we met, my agenda was "Get Elle Fanning." I believe Elle's was "Get the role." But we didn't know that.

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

It's the hardest thing for an actor not to speak because you take away their main tool. So for an actor, it's very frustrating and very challenging, and very few people can pull it off. Some actors can say a thousand words with just a look, and it's a unique gift.

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

Ironically, even the fashion in New York or Paris or Milan or whatever, or music in Berlin, or art in, I don't know, Madrid - all these scenes come and go. Everything leads back to Hollywood.

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.

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