Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society..

I've been making films with almost no dialogue (laughs), so sound and music become a very powerful character to tell the story. It's almost like with….

Love comes from the strangest places..

We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme..

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 danger….

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

I feel that silence is the greatest word, ever. When you don't talk, people begin to read things into you or you become what they long for. When you ….

There's incredible effect in being either loved or hated, but knowing that, either way, you have penetrated the mind and have altered it; that is a v….

Creativity is narcissism. Creativity is falling in love with one's self as you create. It's self-indulgent..

The act of creation can be an extreme violent experience..

Reaction is what changes your understanding of the world..

I think that I am a pornographer, meaning that I make movies based on what excites me and what I would like to see..

I love fear, and fear breeds creativity. It forces you to react instinctively, which is the essence of movement. Movement is a creativity - a sense o….

In "Drive," there's a heightened male edge. In "Only God Forgives," it was almost crawling back into the womb of the mother. And now with "The Neon D….

The problem with cinema nowadays is that it's a math problem. People can read a film mathematically; they know when this comes or that comes; in abou….

You must understand that violence in a movie is only a tool. If it's used badly, it will be horrible. If it's used correctly, it can be very interest….

I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think ….

Financially, it was very successful. Which is the most important thing. That is the only way you get to make another movie. It's very simple. The mar….

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..

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

Understanding one's own power is more interesting than someone being given something powerful..