North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countries of dictatorships or whatever: if you don't want to be invaded by America, get some nuclear weapons.

New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.

I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst.

I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of movies.

The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills.

I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they built schools and churches for them, free housing, free food, free everything. It's wrong. No matter how nice you make it look, it's wrong.