I think everybody's looking for religion to believe in. I think we all need faith.

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.

Never accept help from a dragon. Dragons do not offer help. They offer fate.

This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh in it.

There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories.

Television is where you watch people in your living room that you would not want near your house.

In all aspects of my life, I try to reduce my impact on the earth - that includes snowboarding, as well.

I don't know who said 'pictures don't lie.' It couldn't have been a photographer.

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

In 35 yrs of leading I've been afraid at every major step but I DID IT ANYWAY since I REFUSE let fear run my life.

The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's.

If you don't play to win don't play at all.