I think when you make a movie, one of your main focuses as a director is to inspire everyone else to give their best. Like manipulation.

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.

Ears for wisdom, hands for work, eyes for opportunities, and a mouth for thanks.

For me, reading begins at home.

world is small to hate but very big to love

You can't hold on to a grievance and be happy. Time to make a choice!

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

Social media allows big companies to act small again.

You're judging her by her literacy," Tara says. "You're a literacist." "You've made that up.

Relationships happen in experiences.

I always seem to be singing against the grain.