The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .

You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.

In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.

This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.

If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.

When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started - I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it's so beautiful - I should be a filmmaker!

I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.

You have a great talent and a great role in the world.

When one door closes another opens but all too often there is a long hallway in between.

There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.

We can't encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven.

I want to buy Yoogeun a fire extinguisher.

Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.

Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.