[The Neon Demon] was more my own fascination with beauty. It's my children's fascination beauty.

Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.

I don't believe that art makes people violent in any way. I don't. But I do believe art can show people how to be violent and that's much more dangerous in a way.

I think that I am a pornographer, meaning that I make movies based on what excites me and what I would like to see.

The artificial world that we create through images will essentially become real.

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

Creativity is narcissism. Creativity is falling in love with one's self as you create. It's self-indulgent.

In a way, art is a great way to release your love, fantasy, and desires. It's like a fetish. It's a comfortable way of excising a lot of your conscience.

Look at the birth of anything; it's always more violent than anything you could ever imagine.

We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme.

Understanding one's own power is more interesting than someone being given something powerful.

Any moral system that is detached from God, no matter how noble and sincerely held, will likewise fail.

You are not your outer appearance, and you are not your body

Why was it that women were expected to restrain our every passion for the sake of propriety, but men couldn't do it even for the sake of the women they loved?

Enjoy every moment as much as you can because you never know when those memories will show their back to you.

Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.

I was surprised to learn that research showed arranged couples tended to be happier in the long run.

Hurry up, mundie boy, we've got work to do.

Black people invented jazz. But this story [in La La Land] wasn't ever claiming to be that. It's just a story about two people from one writer's point of view.

Your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion -- these are the things that count in life.

Whoever brings an affliction, it is God who sends it.