There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.

I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing.

I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

I never planned my career in steps. It's all coming at me like burglars in the night.

The deal was we had to have people accompanying us and they would ask us not to film something [in North Korea]. For example, we wanted to film at a certain place and there happened to be a building under construction and it didn't look as fancy as the other buildings, so they wanted us to shoot where everything looked finished and made a good impression of the cityscape.