When I really love a movie, I don't want to spoil it by too frequent visits. But I like to come back to certain films, which I admire.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge, to show that I could.

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.

The whole showmanship is NOT to answer every question.

Happy endings make me puke.

Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.

The best films are because of nobody but the director.

I don't rehash the past. It's my baggage. That's all. I accept things as they are.

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

I simply think there's life after movies. I have to adhere to this philosophy, and therefore I like other things, and I have other passions. None are as big as movie-making, but they exist.

A low possibility means it's not zero. - Tokuchi Toua

He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch.

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know, and I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

I'd like to retire at 50 but I don't want to sell papers in the middle of London on a Zimmer.

I'm happy to talk in general themes, but when we get down to specifics about my family, for me that's always been off-limits.

If you're talented enough and play long enough, and put up numbers, you'll get to the Hall of Fame. That doesn't make you a World Series winner.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Most parents don’t know really their children.

Her nightmare clung to her like the smell of smoke to cloth.