I certainly believe that creativity must be an experience. If I'm to steal time away from people, we should give them something to react to.

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.

I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.

The will, we have, is a very strong force. If we set our minds to get to a goal and focus intensely on it, it’s hard for anything to get in the way.

Most people desire comfort and pleasure.

Wishes have voices sometimes.

The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment.

I fought windmills with such heavy weapons that I risked dislocating my arm.

We are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

What Carew does with a football, I can do with an orange.

Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done.

They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.