If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.

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.

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.

I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.

To be “out of touch” with a society in which women have internalized their subjugation is an admirable thing.

Theology is a superstition—Humanity a religion.

we are two like-minded creatures too well-matched, both equal halves of a whole not altogether wholesome

To advise is not to compel.

I believe the Universe is planned for good.

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

A successful life depends less on how long you live than on how much you can pack into the time you have.

Hillary Clinton the centraliser that inter-connects all these different cogs.

Earnie hit me harder than any other fighter, including Mike Tyson. He hit me and I was face down on the canvas hearing saxophonist Jimmy Tillis.

We are not leaving the EU, we are rejoining the rest of the world.