I do have to say I have been very fortunate.

I don't believe in censorship in any form.

Films don't cause violence, people do. Violence defines our existence. To shield oneself is more dangerous than trying to reflect it.

I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.

On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.