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.

I love watching the superhero movies and I would love to make one.

My movie [The Neon Demon] is a hyper-version of the obsession with beauty. As this crazy obsession grows, longevity does not. Everything seems to become younger and younger. The girls and people around them cannibalize themselves.

I've been lucky to have a beautiful wife and children. The idea that something so beautiful can be so horrific at the same time. Beauty is a complex thing.

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

I have not seen "Batman v Superman," unfortunately. It hasn't been on the plane, as I've been flying a lot.

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