I think that's the struggle of our normality is that we have oppressed desires because of what is accepted and not accepted in society.

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.

XXIV. And kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea I shall shape for myself a new heart from salt and mud

I am going to put death in all their food and watch them die.

It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.

Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.

We're constantly taking pictures of ourselves. It's a bit scary, because images are essentially dead, so we judge beauty on something that isn't alive.

I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.

God help us we're in the hands of engineers.

The much-lauded parliamentary democracy in India has been unable to protect a genuine democratic set-up in Kashmir.