I've been lucky to have a beautiful wife and children. The idea that something so beautiful can be so horrific at the same time. Beauty is a complex thing.

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.

Imagination, abstraction, creativity, and coherence etc are some inherently cognitive and mental elements of architect-wise thinking.

For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.

Whatever anyone does, / anyone says, in the/ past, now, everything, let/ it bounce off the rock/ of yr gladness (yr mirror)

I was always Armie. There couldn't be a 90-year-old Armand and a 9-day-old one. And I heard enough jokes about baking soda.

As Carl Jung put it, "In each of us there is another whom we do not know." As Pink Floyd sang, "There's someone in my head, but it's not me."

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

Using numerology to count the people I sent to heaven, Produces more digits than 22 divided by 7.

Everything he did was at least partial and often total bullshit” (402).

I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination.