I think that Danish people may be thought off as the happiest people, but honestly...I love America.

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.

It is like reading two books, one with each eye, and understanding them both.

Dance with your rhythm.

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will or rather our own will is our separation from God.

That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together.

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

One of the great things about drama is that it makes you feel like you're not a crackpot, and that there are other people who think and feel the way you do.

The quantity of money, which is readily parted with to obtain a thing is called its price.

I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.