[Reanu Reeves] is a very imaginative actor. He can have this wonderful balance of humor and fear. He's got these skills to be entertaining but also quite terrifying.

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.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

A cherished cause and a general who inspires confidence by previous success are powerful means of electrifying an army.

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

An aphorism should be like a burr: sting, ... and leave a little soreness.

If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.

Our content carries the Forbes name, and our whole mantra is to put authoritative journalism at the center of the social media experience.

I know what makes me happy. I pick the clothes that make me happy - sometimes people like them, sometimes they don't. I try to listen to my own internal guide.

Jesus died for our sins, not our sexuality.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.