I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.

I do love the movies I've done in the past,

The hard work over the past two years, of intensive and widespread consultation and of putting the proposals together, will be lost. Worse, the mutual trust we have taken pains to build between the central government and ourselves, the trust we need to take our democratization forward, will dissipate.

80 percent of the hard work is still in front of us. But in the past, North Korea has been surprisingly flexible if the right incentives were offered.

I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.

I've seen contention before. I'm trying to work to come up with ways to bring people together and move past that particular moment in time.