I sometimes play different kinds of music to see where the performers end up. I play one genre. Then something else when I do it again. It really helps.

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.

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

I hate being called "Liz", because it can sound like such a hiss.

If you do not care about your end user immensely, especially in the next few years, your brand will die.

I've wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up - and I wrote 'a famous singer!'

My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once cinema was invented, knowledge was available to anybody.

Don't you dare besmirch the name of Congress. They are patriotic Americans trying to dress and feed themselves.

Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.

Why wait for a call when you have a command?

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.