Look at the birth of anything; it's always more violent than anything you could ever imagine.

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.

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.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

Great deeds, great blessings.

God accomplishes His purposes heart to heart.

Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.

I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.

Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.

I treat every race the same. We all wanted to swim fast today and give something back to the crowd.

The quickest way to kill jobs is to have this ordinance pass. It is dumb and dangerous.

I know it's absurd, but they're out saying so, and Hillary [Clinton] makes a big, big deal about climate change.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.