Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.

I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.

I think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.

It's very enigmatic because of course, the population [of North Korea] has no contact with the world outside or it's very, very limited. They don't have any telephone connections, no radio, no TV, no movies, no newspapers - nothing from the outside world. This is very strange and there's the very strict, unifying government that forces you to be in step. You see it in the stadium where the spectators create, by flipping cards, an image of the dear leader, or of the volcano, and it's made of a 100,000 human pictures.

There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.

I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters.

If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.