Park Chan-wook Quotes - Page 2

If you are watching my films and wondering, am I missing humorous speak because I'm not Korean? Am I missing out? You don't have to worry, because you're only missing probably about a few cents worth out of your ticket price.

In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.

When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.

Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts. So, working with this very intelligent, smart cast meant that sometimes I would only have to start speaking a word and these wonderful actors would immediately catch onto what I wanted them to portray, and how I wanted them to act.

Not only do I look at the playback with the actors, but I look at the on-set assembly footage with the sequences with my actors as well. These are the reasons why I take twice as much time to shoot a film in Korea. Thinking back, I remember on my first ever Korean film, I never used any playback or on-set assembly, so all I had to do was to tell myself it's just like making my first ever Korean-language film. After that, I felt right at home.

I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara,Coppola, Neil Jordan.

Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.

Ever since I arrived in America to promote Stoker, I haven't had time to go and see it in a theater. The fact that I had to shoot twice as fast as I'm used to in Korea was the most challenging thing about my Hollywood experience.

I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.

As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.

I feel myself becoming more mature and more fascinated and drawn to feminine values.

In Korea is what I do is I watch the playback of each take with all of the actors and spend a lot of time discussing each take. Also, I use the process we call auto-assembly because I storyboard my entire film right at the beginning, even before pre-production ever begins, so my vision is already laid out on the storyboard for everybody to share. It enables the on-set assembly person, as we call them, to cut together each take into a sequence. This enables a director to review the take within the context of the sequence of the scene.

I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.

I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.

I tend not to use the humor which would only apply to Koreans, or which would only affect the Koreans, as much as I can.

I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.

I've grown up watching a lot of Western genre films on TV, and America is not just a country, but it's one of the most important countries in the world, and examining the process of how this nation came to be, it's an important thing, even for outsiders.

Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts.

I'd like to do a really masculine film.

In my creative films, if there was something, some humorous moment that is lost to a non-Korean speaking audience, I'll be very sad.

Some audiences might find homosexuality an uncomfortable subject matter, and a character who is a Japanese collaborator is always uncomfortable.

A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.

Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.