Park Chan-wook Quotes
If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
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I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
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If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.
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I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
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My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st. It's supposed to be a vanity bag, but I use it as a handbag.
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Great software has seemingly limitless potential to solve human problems - and it can spread around the world in the blink of an eye. Malicious code moves just as quickly, and when software is created for the wrong reason, it has a huge and growing capacity to harm millions of people.
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Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
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If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.
