Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

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.

But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

The funny thing about being Catholic, and I was raised Catholic, is that you identify with the Church, just as part of your character. Nevermind what you believe, it's just who you are.

We can change the lives of autistic children. We can make a difference. There are hundreds of families in Florida who can't afford the therapists.

The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps?

Everyone's politics are born of self-interest, particularly around sexuality. We just have to own up to that.

Ah. In my experience, when people say they don't know whether they love someone, they usually mean no.

The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.

Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.

The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.

We can control our borders, we just choose not too.