We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

God, I just love baseball.

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.

The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'Well done'.

Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.

The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.

I do what works best for me, but it might not work for somebody else.

Please let go your anger and please send my Saet Byul back. She is my everything

You cannot expect to get the effect when you neglect to create the cause.

There's nothing in the world so sad as talking to a man who never knew his life was his for making.

I see what keeps people young: work!

There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the "sacred" attitude and the acceptance of one's in most self.