I woke up one day and I realized I wasn't born beautiful, but my wife was, so I decided to make a horror film about it: what it would be like to be born beautiful.
My initial idea was I wanted to make it a horror film, very much. At times I do enter that world.
I think the idea was to make a horror film that became a science-fiction film with a lot of melodramatic tropes.
The first person I ever described the film [The Neon Demon] to was Christina Hendricks [who has a cameo in the movie]. We were having dinner in LA and she asked me what I wanted to do next and I said, "I want to do a horror movie." And she goes, "What's it going to be about?" And I said, "A lot of blood and high heels."
I wanted to make a horror film about beauty.
Man's fear of sexuality is the basis of all horror from the male perspective.
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