I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.

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.

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.

You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.

The accomplishments in college and even in the pros are more in my mind because you constantly see Duke on TV during basketball season. You constantly see the NBA.

I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.

I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it.

It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.

I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.

Resolution is struggle. Resolution is ego. Resolution is saying, "I cannot live spontaneously. ".

A Not So Big House feels more spacious than many of its oversized neighbors because it is space with substance, all of it in use every day.

The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change.