I just close my eyes and I fantasize what I would like to see.

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.

Inconceivable!""You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

The Teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

[Rape is] nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.

She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.

Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.

More people are bribed by their own money than anybody else's.

Let's face it, most pretty girls aren't funny.

Separate yourself from the technique; separate yourself from yourself.

My dear, life rarely gives us what we want at the moment we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived.