Understanding one's own power is more interesting than someone being given something powerful.

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.

The idea of narcissism, essentially, is and will be accepted as a virtue.

The strength of a woman is the love she carries in her heart.

Historically, the best way to convert liberals is to have them move out of their parents' home, get a job, and start paying taxes.

The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.

Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.

I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere, without moving anything but your heart.

Deliberation is a good thing when it comes to fighting wars.

What is happening to human resources in Punjab. Seven out of 10 youth have the problem of drugs.

My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.

I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.