The future is not about what you do, it's about what you stand for.

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.

the poet I saw once...but whose words have long beenin my mind, windows of invincible candles...

I find beauty in every sacred moment.

Isn’t time the only one true god? It makes and breaks

I refuse to make uninspired music.

We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.

Be true. Be beautiful. Be free. In the midst of segregation and racism Mamma raised us to be independent and free. We saw ourselves as citizens of the world, not of a block.

Businessmen they drink my wine, come and taste my herb.

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

Everything in the universe has a purpose.

He looked like the love thoughts of women.