Bong Joon-ho Quotes
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I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.
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Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own internal logic that strengthens with reiteration.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
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I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.
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The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.
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The famous convention of 1787 met in Philadelphia to define the additional powers needed to enable Congress to do its job effectively. Instead, the convention proposed a brand new national government.
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Working hard is way more fun. If you had to goof off 40 hours a week, you couldn't do it. It would drive you crazy.
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.
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Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.
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I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.
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We tried to approach this as though there's never been a Superman movie before, but at the same time respecting the canon and mythology. There are the pillars that you have to respect, and I'm not about to break them. But it is fun for me to bend them and mess with them.
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Anti-frackers are disingenuous. They bow to the religion of environmentalism.
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One of the criteria for a global company is that it should have a manufacturing presence in multiple countries and should not only be an exporter.
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Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.
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People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.
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I'm just really trying to say what I really mean, which is: 'Your eye's on the prize, your eye's on the future. It's nice to know that a lot of wonderful things have happened to your life and that so much of it has been successful. That's great, but the work is really what makes it fun - and that has to be the future.'
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My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.
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'Mourning is a hard business,' Cesare said. 'If people knew there'd be less death.'
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Wodehouse is very interesting. There must be all kinds of darknesses in that man's life.
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It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that producing food, shelter, transportation, or medical care is not.
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I always write the script by myself.
