Kim Jee-woon Quotes
Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking.
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We could spend time together during the day and just kind of talk and enjoy each other and enjoy the moment. But it was interesting we both knew that once you walk through the gates of that stadium, then it was on, the game was on.
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The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.
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I envy those who can wear red lipstick or any bold lip colour, really. My top lip just doesn't seem to take colour - there's nothing I can do to change that, so I usually just use a nude on the bottom lip.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
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A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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Nothing fires me up like losing. It certainly makes you want to go that extra bit.
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I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
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Cherish your mistakes, and you won't keep making them over and over again. It's the same with heartbreaks and girls and everything else. Cherish them, and they'll put some wealth in you.
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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
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When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.
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I still work weekends because I like it; I enjoy it. I just don't care.
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When we made 'Shaun of the Dead,' it was our first feature, and we were just lucky to make a film, full stop.
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The surprising thing is that so many teenage cancer novels are very good. John Green's 'The Fault in Our Stars,' recently published by Penguin, was voted Time Magazine's book of the year in 2012 ahead of Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith.
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Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality will have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.
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Problems are the price you pay for progress.
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We lost this game with no fundamentals. If we all collectively get the fundamentals down, we win this game.
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Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never knew. Sometimes, people could surprise you.
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Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking.
