I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the more violent it feels.

I'm dyslexic, which means I have trouble reading and writing. So images really speak to me.

Good and bad are not really relevant to me.

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.

I moved to New York when I was eight years old, in 1978. I grew up in Manhattan. I couldn't speak any English, and I had dyslexia, so it took me many years before I could read.

My mother and stepfather were documentary filmmakers and, of course, had a very healthy Scandinavian mentality. When it came to cinema, my mother was very obsessed with the French New Wave. That was her generation.