Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.

I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.

In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

Living without hate for people is almost impossible. There is nothing wrong with fantasizing about revenge. You can have that feeling. You just shouldn't act in it.

If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.

The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.

I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

I actually pay careful attention to that sort of thing - infusing humor into my films - because that's how important I think humor is.

When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.

Sometimes you need these warm, human moments - something that feels close - to help things along.

The Hubbermanns had two of their own (children), but they were older and had moved out...Soon they would be both in the war. One would be making bullets. The other would be shooting them.

Whatever it is I'm born to do, my fear of failing at it has almost become greater than my desire to figure out what it is.

Nothing is ever black and white, Nila. You should know that bu now. Its all how you survive the grey." -Kes

I'm a big State Fair person, and my main goal is to eat as much food as possible, but I tend not to do the foods on a stick. But I like Big Fat Bacon.

MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.

We live in a moment that is pregnant with possibility.

I said, 'I'll give myself two years. If I can't support myself as an actress within two years, then I'll go back to choreography.'

Never ask anyone if you should do something, if ultimately you are afraid to do it. You'll save yourself a lot of trouble.

The secret of life is in art.

Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.