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

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.

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.

I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.

I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.

One man two loves. No good ever comes of that.

I think America needs lots of tough people. Not just me. I think America needs to get tougher, all of us.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

Outside, a ceiling of pearly gray clouds coalesced over Manhattan, and the apartment had grown dark. It just keeps dripping. It's been like this all week, .. Rain would be a relief.

Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far as possible.

When the heart stops for one beat it is desire, when it stops for one life time it is love

People wait for something to happen in order to be happy; the key is to be happy regardless.

Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away.