I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.

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.

To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.

God gave us his word of salvation, for us to become the agents of His principles and the doers of His will, His judgment on earth

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.

An archbishop is an ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.

Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along.

In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.

Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

Invention is the natural outcome of creative thinking.