I do like musical films more than big Hollywood films, especially those by Jacques Demi and Vincent Minelli.

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.

I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together,

You could have kept on driving and never looked back. No one's ever had to stop for me. Or even hear me. Anyway, you did, and now I'm afraid the time for choice is behind us both.

I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.

There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.

See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

I knew South Africa was going to change; you can't keep people down forever. It's unnatural. Somehow something had to crack, and it did.

I take it personal when people don't double me. It's against my religion not to double me. It upsets me. It makes me think they're saying to themselves I don't have it anymore.

How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?

No matter how fast a lie runs, the truth will someday overtake it.