Everything we do is about the emotion of the characters. We believe the better the emotion, the better the movie.

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.

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.

I can affect change by transforming the only thing that I ever had control over in the first place and that is myself.

Having signed a few autographs in my time, I always wonder what the heck people do with them.

Forget about tennis, I was scared to open my mouth. I didnt even feel worthy of saying something and not sounding stupid.

I’ve really turned a corner recently in terms of not taking work too seriously, so it is much easier for me to not take my work home.

Music is an important part of my writing process.

I am still on stage. If you read Press...you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it and DOING IT WELL!

[Woman Walks Ahead] is from me being a very bizarre child. From the age of about 8 to the age of about 15, I was obsessed with Native Americans.

Treason seldom dwells with courage.