I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn't matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door.

If I'm going to be a caged bird, I'll sing the best song I can.

The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.

All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps.

A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?

I have a lot of fans who are people of color. I think, if nothing else, I kind of understand that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally.

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.

I think the most powerful beauty is representative of uniqueness and individuality of every person.

All the food we eat, whether Brussels sprouts or pork bellies, has been modified by mankind. Genetic engineering is only one particularly powerful way to do what we have been doing for eleven thousand years.

Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.

Food is very powerful.