I wanted to make a horror film about beauty.

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.

Forget and Forgive are the only way to move forward.

I can't give you the moon, ” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!

We humans can look deep into future and predict what will happen, but then turn around and do nothing about it.

Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.

Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.

Nothing sexy about pregnancy.

men never would share power with women willingly. If we wanted it, we would have to take it.

If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.