Park Chan-wook Quotes
I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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I like things simple.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.
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I was in art school, and we had all these random classes. We'd listen to a lot of Bollywood. I'd listen to Spanish music - and I don't even speak Spanish, but Hector Lavoe is amazing - we listened to French music like Edith Piaf. She's tight. I like cool vocal inflections; I like cool sounds. I pretty much listen to anything I think is good.
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I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas.
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I went to theatre school for four years and just wanted to do theatre. I had no ambition to be on TV or to be on camera. I just wanted to go to New York or London and be on stage... I did a lot of theatre in Montreal, got involved in TV in Toronto and then moved to L.A. I hope that film and TV will take me back to theatre.
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
