Bong Joon-ho Quotes
No matter where I am working, I cannot make a film without 100% creative control and final cut. If there is such a guarantee, I can work anywhere.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
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I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.
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I am a simple man, though my wife says I am complicated. I'll trust her on that one.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.
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I always got my work done before playing.
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I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around.
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No matter where I am working, I cannot make a film without 100% creative control and final cut. If there is such a guarantee, I can work anywhere.
