Some audiences might find homosexuality an uncomfortable subject matter, and a character who is a Japanese collaborator is always uncomfortable.

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.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

One cannot free oneself by bowing to the yoke, but by breaking it.

Stop attaching so much weight to being right. In the grand scheme of things, being right is insignificant compared with being happy.

We ought to get back to making America great again, which is what we're going to do. And we've already started the process.

The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed.

Our blood is the same, we just use it differently.

Knowing that all things contrary to God's laws are transient, let us avoid despair and radiate hope for a warless world.

When you bump into your own mom at an orgy, it's hard not to get her to read into certain things.

The things that have taken place over my career have been unbelievable. I have a lot of great moments to cherish.