I'm a fetishist. I make films based on 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.

Fulfil the needs of the soul, which travels beyond the death and which will survive the extinction of the world.

Burn yourself with the fire of love to enjoy the fiery, burning beauty of love.

Once in rur-al Flathead coun-tyStood a cru-wel Christmas sceneDumped for slaugh-ter were the rein-deerWhen an elf did intervene.

Little do women know what big ideas I have in my pants.

America is divided by economics, and we as Americans, we've got to do a better job of supporting poor people.

I like acting and things when I like the writing. If I don't like the writing, I don't like acting. I think in some ways everything starts for me from the place of writing.

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

The need for a pro-life point of view undergirds everything you do.

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.