I sometimes play different kinds of music to see where the performers end up. I play one genre. Then something else when I do it again. It really helps.

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

I think when you make a movie, one of your main focuses as a director is to inspire everyone else to give their best. Like manipulation.

Reaction is what changes your understanding of the world.

I don't have to go very far to see the power of beauty. Being desired, feeling desired is a very seductive aspect of our being.

I think everybody's looking for religion to believe in. I think we all need faith.

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 very pleasurable feeling.