The thing with Ryan, you can look at him for hours. Very few actors have that. It's a gift.

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 takes a whole government to really screw up a war. A dollop of American hubris goes a long way too.

Feminism is really just the long slow realization that the things you love hate you.

Your true beliefs are known in agony

I would rather live a life alone, than live a life based on lies, deceit and manipulation

Politeness is an inexpensive way of making friends.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.

If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.

A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings.

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

I shall strive to inculculate in my men the spirit of the chase.