If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.

I don't like no confusion.

I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio...

I do what interests me when I'm invited and do it as well as I know how and try to get better. That's all.

I loved working with [ Lars Von Trier], but I've done two films before, so I was quite used to him.He's a man of incredible moods of course, but he's also a hugely perceptive man, and there's no getting away from that. And he's able to put that perception into something like film, so we're very lucky.

Bong Joon-ho is enormously sensitive to performance. He knows what he needs to see and that's all he needs to shoot. He is so daring. We don't do that in the west. We shoot everything.