Creativity is narcissism. Creativity is falling in love with one's self as you create. It's self-indulgent.

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.

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

To be a climber one has to accept that gratification is rarely immediate.

Without business skills, your passion or hobby will not translate into money in your pocket.

Life is about showing up, so is writing. That’s why I sit at my desk every day and dance my fingers across the keyboard

Reappraise the past reevaluate where we've been clarify where we are and predict or anticipate where we are headed.

Pulling heads off Barbies, sticking them on the TV antenna and ruining the reception. But thats how witch babies are.

I was in Pakistan in Islamabad when Bhutto was assassinated, and the next day, you know, there's just plumes of smoke everywhere. I mean, Islamabad is on fire.

Any little issue - Miss Universe, or whatever it may be - [Donald Trump] is completely unpredictable, he'll go off into outer space.

To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.

We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.

From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we band of brothers.