Park Chan-wook Quotes
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I live in a rural residential area. It's a great place for a walk. I'm at my happiest when I'm listening to my iPod while walking around where my feet take me.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
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When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.
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A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.
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The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.
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I don't really believe in the auteur theory.
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Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.
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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.
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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.
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I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
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Living without hate for people is almost impossible.
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Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.
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When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.
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The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.
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Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
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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.
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I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?
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When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring process, I wouldn't ever dream of it.
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A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.
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I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.
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In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.
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I have always meticulously storyboarded my films from beginning to end.
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I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.