We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme.

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.

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

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

Are you okay?" I (Cassie) call up to him."Um. Define okay." (Ben)"Okay means you're not bleeding to death.""I'm okay.

It was the calm before the storm, and holy crap, my bones knew it was going to be the storm of my life.

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

Jason felt humiliated and frustrated. Rejected by a rock.

What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us.

When East meets West, amazing design happens. L'Alahambra rug is a marriage of the clean line and simplicity of Western graphic design meets the complexity and beauty of Eastern pattern.

If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.

I feel that women 'and men,' but I mean the 'individual,' can be totally feminine and still be totally powerful.

The more I use a matrix, the easier I make it to blame someone else.

Losing elections all across America, and the American people clearly saying the Democratic Party is no longer the party of the people, I don't know how much more objective you can get than that.