Park Chan-wook Quotes
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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.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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Certainly, it includes that. I want the story to be interpreted in as many ways as possible, and of course, the bad blood aspect of it included. For instance, perhaps this is a story not about the hereditary nature of evil, but rather you could interpret it from a different perspective, too.
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I do like musical films more than big Hollywood films, especially those by Jacques Demi and Vincent Minelli.
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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.
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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.
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There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.
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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.
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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.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but Mad Men changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.
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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.
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I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.
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I feel myself becoming more mature and more fascinated and drawn to feminine values.
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Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
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I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.
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If I want to relax and not do anything, I don't want to leave home.
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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.
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If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.
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The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.
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Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts.
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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.
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
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I am sure I am one of 2000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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I've read all of Sarah Waters's novels which have been translated into Korean.
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Sometimes you need these warm, human moments - something that feels close - to help things along.
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When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.
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I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
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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.
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When I'm writing something, if it gets too serious, I just can't bear it, so I take a step back and take the overall scene in and vent the air a little bit.
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