I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers.

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.

I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.

Tiffany is very proud to have the last name and she's proud of her dad.

There's a genius in all of us.

The characters get challenged. Through getting challenged, the character arrives at insights or discovers potentials that he or she didn't know they had.

Passion is your positive attitude in a world of negativity.

I'm not interested in being commodified. I'm not into being sold. I'm not a slave.

Fruitless striving breeds less despair than inaction.

America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome.

The new is threatening to those who have mastered the old.

Fantasy and reality often overlap.