Kim Jee-woon Quotes

I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films: I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell. Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.

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• Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Doubt
  • Said
  • Try

• A true man hates no one.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • True
  • Man
  • True Man

• The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • American
  • Government
  • Nation

• I love feminine soft shades for summers - I like pastels and bright hues, too. I like summer dresses and tank tops; I think they never go out of style. As much as I'm happy with Western wear for red carpet and social dos, I also like Indian ethnic wear for special occasions.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Style

• I can't not be who I am.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Man
  • Сan

• And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Work
  • Best
  • Texas

• It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Time
  • Real
  • Truth

• Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in the character, usually for the better. To not have an arc, the messages and ideas in the film became more prominent.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Character
  • Change

• An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Police
  • Without
  • Executive

• Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Good
  • America
  • Old

• I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Trying
  • Poetry
  • California

• Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

  

  Basil Hume
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Die

• I was always the new kid, and I got to know the language and the politics of being on the outside, looking in. Never being in the clique - always being a student of the clique, a subversive, and I could look around and identify the other guys who were excluded.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Language
  • Politics
  • New

• I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and run around and function at a decent rate. Then they had the idea that it might be better to do a retirement thing.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Bad
  • Better
  • Retirement

• It's not every day you get to do what you love and have a major story behind it.

  

  OMI
  • Love
  • Day
  • Behind

• When I was I kid, there were so many different things that I wanted to be. As an actor, I get a chance to be all of those things, at least for a couple of days, which is fun.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Couple

• I read my sister's diary when I was 7. She was, I think, 13. It was awful to read it.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • She
  • Think
  • Sister

• I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Political

• Hungry for both fantasy and inspiration, readers crave protagonists who, after overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, triumph at the end of the day.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Inspiration
  • Obstacles
  • Fantasy

• Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Ambition
  • Avarice

• Most of the White people I talk to either have not thought about their race and so don't feel anything, or have thought about it and felt guilt and shame. These feelings of guilty and shame are part of the hidden costs of racism.

  

  Beverly Daniel Tatum
  • Racism
  • Shame
  • Guilt

• I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films: I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell. Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.

  

  Kim Jee-woon