Young kids are taking Viagra, ecstasy. They even want instant sex.

Young kids are taking Viagra, ecstasy. They even want instant sex.

Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it for? You need historical perspective to make sound decisions.

The business is so upside down now. It's not just about the bling-bling.

Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.

How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals?

When the media defines something, you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying to determine who's leaving the legacy, and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one.

Just having hope ain't going to cut it. You've got to have hope, passion and skills.

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.

Black people don't even question things any more, they simply follow the lead.

The business is so upside down now. Its not just about the bling bling.

Young kids are taking Viagra, ecstasy. They even want instant sex.

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

I think we've come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain.

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.

The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.

I am in total ecstasy with where my life is now.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.