It was a very comfortable and personal relationship [Cliff Martinez ].'The Neon Demon'is our third movie and the music has never been as important as for this movie.

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

Jenna Malone was a very important piece of how the film [The Neon Demon] turned out.

The thing with Ryan, you can look at him for hours. Very few actors have that. It's a gift.

Doing your first film, it's very important that it's a commercial success, because that gives you a couple times to experiment until you have to hit the jackpot again.

Beauty is on one level pure surface, and on the other hand, it's the most complex subject that we can touch upon because it says everything about us as people. It's a subject we very quickly begin to argue about. I think that's so interesting.

The artificial world that we create through images will essentially become real.