The artificial world that we create through images will essentially become real.

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.

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.

The idea of narcissism, essentially, is and will be accepted as a virtue.

The web and its technologies are digital representations of everything we did before in a more private, bigger, faster and more empowering format than ever before.

If you're dating the quarterback and then you go out with the hockey player, you just go to the hockey games. I don't think I'll still go to the football games.

I want to protect my own happiness. I'm not an angel. I'm just a normal girl.

We reject any idea that one race of people is in any way better than another.

When once the mind has raised itself to grasp and to delight in excellence, those who love most will be found to love most wisely.

Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew.

I'm in a position where it doesn't matter what people think of me now.

Melissa [ Rosenberg] really has mastered coming from character. Everything radiates from the characters in this work. You don't feel like anything's imposed.

Why do we go through all the nonsense with security at our airport? It's not because the Catholic Church is falling apart.

One of the things that make motorcycling so great is because it never fails to give you a feeling of freedom and adventure.