Ironically, even the fashion in New York or Paris or Milan or whatever, or music in Berlin, or art in, I don't know, Madrid - all these scenes come and go. Everything leads back to Hollywood.

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 chronic water shortage in the body that causes most diseases of the human body.Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj

When you live life connected to purpose, you don't have to chase opportunities, they come to you.

Condole - to show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.

When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

There is only one way in which you can "change your luck" and that is by altering your thoughts.

I want to grow. I don't want to get stuck doing the same thing over and over and think I'm the best at it.

There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.

The person is being confrontational.

Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.

The single most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.