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“I think that every man has a 16-year-old girl inside of him.”
“Filmmaking is like any kind of art form. You have to try to figure it out, and you're going to do that by trying.”
“I find beauty very frightening because it's such an all consuming subject in our society.”
“I wanted to be famous. I guess I thought acting would make me famous.”
“L.A. films are hard to define compared to New York films because New York films are their own subgenre, in a way. L.A. is more transparent.”
“Hollywood is Hollywood. It'll never change, although it does go through its own transformations. I think that there's this obsessiveness with making money, which has gotten out of proportion.”
“My world is just one big chaos!”
“You cannot go through life without cause and effect.”
“We're premiering 'The Neon Demon' in Cannes, which is the representation of 'The Neon Demon,' which is all about glamour and vulgarity.”
“Coming to Hollywood, you always hear the horror stories, but I had good people around me who maybe didn't understand what I was doing but always protected me.”
“America has no one to catch you when you fall. That makes you want to achieve. It is healthy for the soul. But all that is valued is success.”
“As long as your movies don't lose money, you'll always be able to make them.”
“I started buying films a couple of years ago. The first film-maker I began to obsessively collect was Andy Milligan. He was a New York frustrated artist.”
“My films are like Christmas: you can't wait to open it.”
“I think the Internet is the greatest invention since women.”
“The 'Neon Demon' is very much designed to be like a YouTube movie. It's designed to be chopped up. You can cut it up into seven or eight pieces and they're, like, vignettes.”
“The first thing I do when I go to people's houses is look at their television, turn it on.”
“I started making films purely based on what I would like to see.”
“I would love to make a romantic comedy.”
“L.A. is, on one hand, very mysterious; it's very modern. It's a mysterious place - it's a haunting place - and everything in our culture around the world of entertainment leads back to Hollywood.”