I don't do drugs, and so music very much gets me going. When I do something, I think, "If it was a piece of music, what would it be?"

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.

YOU ARE HERE FOR A CAUSE. YOU REACH TO YOUR ULTIMATE DESTINY BY LIVING THAT CAUSE.

This is what I want so don't be sad.

She had never known that ice could take on so many shades of blue: sharp lines of indigo like the deepest sea, aquamarine shadows, even the glint of blue-green where the sun struck just so.

Dictum on television scripts: We don't want it good - we want it Tuesday.

No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work.

Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

All rules for study are summed up in this one: learn only in order to create.

Marge, when I join an underground cult I expect a little support from my family.

Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.

It was good to get a few days off after the number of games we had. Now it's back to reality.