The power of art is as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; it's just where war destroys, art inspires. But in order to inspire, you need to reac….

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

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

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

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

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….

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

Love comes from the strangest places..

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

I think that experiencing through art is a wonderful way to expand the horizon and everything around it..

I don't do drugs, and so music very much gets me going. When I do something, I think, "If it was a piece of music, what would it be?".

I am a child of cinema, and I am a cineaste, so everything I do is a reference to something I've heard or experienced or seen. And we all do it, we a….

Reaction is what changes your understanding of the world..

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 ….

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

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….

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….

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….

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..

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….

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