Park Chan-wook Quotes
When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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I love so many styles of music.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.
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When you have to work, work with a smile.
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I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.
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Netflix is amazing 'cause they trust the creator to do their job, and they trust us to do our job. They're really smart and just let us do our thing and deliver a great job.
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There are times when I need to dig up the diagram for a type of satellite dish, for instance, but I just can't seem to phrase this need correctly. As a result, I'm inundated by advertising for satellite television and people's online customer reviews of such services when, in fact, I was only trying to figure out what a certain component is called.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
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And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.
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I'm very aware that to reach the same level and have the same amount of success will be extremely difficult.
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I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.
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That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
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When 'Firefly' was canceled, we had just a few other places to shop it to - to take it over... And all of them had reasons why they couldn't do it that time.
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You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.
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When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.
