I believe in a set of values I cannot live by.

My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once cinema was invented, knowledge was available to anybody.

If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.

A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.

I was always fascinated by the infinite, strange and 'scandalous' ways that insects copulate.

I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be.

Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.