I have not seen "Batman v Superman," unfortunately. It hasn't been on the plane, as I've been flying a lot.

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.

Destiny cutsthe cake of love, Three slices to some, To others, a crumb.

A familiar pang of dread wrapped its icy hand around my heart." Lorelei Preston-The Wild Hunt

As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.

As designers we have a great responsibility.

We are not judged by what we are basically. We are judged by how hard we use what we have been given. Success means nothing to the Lord.

God has promised to help us, and God always keeps His promises.

. . . the most difficult thing asked by our young is not our earnings but our ears.

When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.

Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

Acting is about acting, not about being a movie star.