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

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

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

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 don't have to go very far to see the power of beauty. Being desired, feeling desired is a very seductive aspect of our being.

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

I sometimes play different kinds of music to see where the performers end up. I play one genre. Then something else when I do it again. It really helps.