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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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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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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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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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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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
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One of the things about writing a novel is you can do it any way you want. It's your voice that's important and I see absolutely no reason why a screenplay can't be the same. It makes it a hell of a lot easier when you're the writer and the director.
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Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going to happen on network daytime television... so I think it really is always going to come down to story. How do you make a story interesting enough so people will tune in? That's always going to be it.
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You do not need 435 people playing commander-in-chief.
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Nine of 10 whites in Chicago borrow from top-drawer banks and mortgage companies, which the industry calls prime lenders. They lend to people with A credit ratings, making loans at competitive rates.
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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.
