Bong Joon-ho Quotes
I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.
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I don't like workouts that make you bulky.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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I still keep my accent.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
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I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
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You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.
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I'd like to be able to travel anywhere in an instant.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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It almost makes the secrets more important, those few things you actually do choose to keep to yourself.
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Concerning his own rages, I am convinced that they are not real, that they are sometimes experiments, but that in the main they are the habits of a pose or attitude he has seen fit to take toward his fellowman.
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I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.
