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.

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema, writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.

It is something more fleeting than what you normally see. People might somehow take it into their own dreams, into their own life, in a way. I hear it more recently; people are telling me that when they leave the theater and see one of my films, they are not alone anymore. It's probably more that kind of feeling. If I managed to do a film like that, everything is fine.

If the part is really good of course I would like to do it.

Similar thing until today, with digital cameras you look after something like that as robust as they can be.

There are photos of Kim Jong-un right up atop the volcano. I actually wrote a letter to him asking if I could speak on camera. I never got an answer. But what was interesting was the people who were responsible for us, our "guards," it took them two days to figure out how I should address him. "President? No, you can't because there's a president for eternity." And it was a time when his status was still in flux. Only a few months later there was this party congress which assigned an official title to him, but that was after we did our film.