Park Chan-wook Quotes
Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I love books.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
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I see evidence of my own racist brainwashing when exploring the landscape of current foreign policy. (about North Korea)
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When I'm at my best, I'm trying to destabilize myself and figure out new ways of approaching art as a provocation. I think I am at my best when I push myself into a place where I don't have all the answers.
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My most string-beanish, I guess, is when I was 15 years old. From 15 to 16, I went from 155 pounds to 215. By the time I graduated from high school, I was between 235-250.
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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.