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.

Everything we do is about the emotion of the characters. We believe the better the emotion, the better the movie.

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

I don't do drugs, and so music very much gets me going. When I do something, I think, "If it was a piece of music, what would it be?"

The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable.

[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.

I think that television has become really, really interesting, in terms of character development. You can have 13 hours to develop a character, as opposed to 25 minutes in a movie. That excites me.