If you never did anything for your own freedom, you're not worth a human being in my view.

When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.

I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.

For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much.

There's no other way but struggling, forging ahead to do the film.

I think not many young people are willing to pay the price of telling their own story.

When the system does not recognize me I'm not devastated.

To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than them.

Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story - when they claim it.

You have to have a very strong cash flow for a film to really stay in theaters. You have to have the advertising capacity to sustain and follow the kind of press coverage.

Tarantino is a spoiled little white kid. He can do any movie he wants and nobody can do anything about it.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

There is no meaning to fate If you don't have faith

Communication creates collaboration. Big ears are better than big egos. When you’re not listening, ask good questions.

People should be more careful about what they read to their kids, ” Park said. “Some of this stuff sounds dangerous.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me.

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

Time is the thief you cannot banish.

Negatively correlated assets tend to work in harmony in a way that people are generally not used to seeing.

I'm a moderate Democrat. I've always been fascinated and maddened by the way things get done in our system, which as an ideal is so extraordinary, but the way it actually works can be mind-boggling.