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

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.

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.

The idea of narcissism, essentially, is and will be accepted as a virtue.

She was always like this, only moves when her mind and heart tells her to move, not doing what everyone demanded her to do.

It was no time for mercy, it was time to terminate with extreme prejudice.

When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself

I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.

As we know the KGB is all over this election [2016].

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.

Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness.

The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.