You know the one I want to do? I want to make Batgirl.

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.

Perhaps just to have loved was enough - just to have seen this world, and known it, through the eyes of love.

Stupidity is not a disease, it's a choice.

Why are the architects of the family-values agenda so eager to punish into the next generation? What is being served by seeking, quite literally, a tooth for a tooth?

I'd really love to make something that doesn't involve my stupid face.

He who obeys God's laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge.

I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath

Infatuation is the language of a beautiful eye upon a sensitive heart.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

It is imperative that the Christian, at the beginning of his pursuit to understand what true worship is, gets it clear that the object of our worship is to be God and God alone.

That happens to me everyday. I watch my thoughts, not only on the mat, but all through the day.