By the way, today with digital cameras and editing on your laptop, and things like that, you can make a feature film, a narrative feature film easily for $10,000.

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.

It seems odd, but people who see my films normally take them in in a deeper way than you would actually watch a film, let's say The Terminator or whatever.

It's very strange, for example, in North Korea where the volcano at the Chinese border is some sort of the mythical birthplace of the Korean people.

Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a single extra, ever.

Everything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano.