You're not seeing the colors as well as you should be seeing
I'm looking at the optic nerve
making sure that's nice and healthy
We're taking a photo of the back of the eye, the retina
I'm going to have a look at your level of vision
I'll just check the prescription
I wanted to show to everyone else
that having any kind of handicap can also be a blessing
and anything that's normal is so fucking uninteresting
Because I didn't learn to read until I was thirteen
but no one knew I had a dilemma until I was seven or eight
because I could memorize everything and I could recite it
So people thought I was reading
Then I got caught
And then I had to spend my whole fucking school years
going in special schools for dyslexia, which is like...
You know, I was always made for something great
I was made for something different
I was made for something grand
so I didn't belong there
I'm just going to take these off because they must be feeling
quite uncomfortable now
Seeing is understanding
but it's still subliminal
because cinema is really not about what we see
it's about what we don't see
Creativity is about a two-way experience
where you experience something that plants a seed
that you then deliver back in
to whatever it is you're experiencing
and it becomes this circular movement
that basically travels with you for the rest of your life
It defines you, forms you
inspires you, scares you
and in that world, good and bad has no meaning
because in the world of this revolution
everything is acceptable
everything is common
and there is something for everyone
That kind of world is where I come from
because it's the future
and I've always felt I came from the future
I can't see that, and I can't see that
I've only really known one woman
and I was out buying her a pair of shoes
and she kept on trying the same two pairs on
and I was like, what is wrong with her?
Can she not see that it's the same pair of shoes?
And my wife says, "Oh my god, you're colorblind!"
Because apparently they were two different colors
I don't have any idea of how I would like everyone else
to see what I see
I think that it's-- I want them all to react
I made a film about beauty and insanity
I wanted to be about women
because I wanted to make a film about a 16-year-old girl
and I believe there's a 16-year-old girl in every man
so this was my version
You can kind of say that with "Drive"
I reached a kind of height of male fetish
I made three movies about a silent warrior
Mads Mikkelsen played him in "Valhalla Rising"
Ryan played him in "Drive"
and Vithaya played him in "Only God Forgives"
And I think that, at the same time
the other characters in my film, certainly from...
"Only God Forgives" and going to "The Neon Demon"
there's a very...
fetishization of many elements of inside of me
and I'm going to leave that to the experts to find
because I don't want to sound too much like an asshole
I was struggling in the beginning
because I was making movies
more based on how I would like to be perceived
I thought I was born to be the greatest filmmaker of all time
and I sadly realized I wasn't
but then I decided on something else
that with the films I made, I was going to be the best at
and I want to teach my children and all the other people around me
that we spend so much time trying to fit in
for all the wrong reasons
and in terms of the creativity, it's not about that
It's about the exact opposite
but that takes a lot of fucking guts
So it's all about this mathematical approach
to forcing yourself to be
as instinctually fearless as possible
and the only rule of the game
is make sure it makes money
and you do that by basically approaching, as I do, every movie
as if it's going to be the last one
Because if you're going to go out
you're going to go out with a bang