Kim Ki-duk Quotes

A director should not define everything. For me, the movie is a form of a question I pose to the others or to the audience. I want to ask their opinion on my point of view and discuss it with them.

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• I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • People
  • Think
  • Ancestors

• I don't like possessions.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Like
  • Possessions

• I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Mind

• The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Success
  • Benefits
  • U.S.

• I'm a fan of Bjork, a fan of Premier, you know, those are the first two names that come to my mind. You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Experience

• When you think about those of us that live the life that we want to live, we can thank absolutely and completely our men and women in uniform. Because if it were not for them, we wouldn't enjoy the freedoms that we have.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Father
  • Me
  • Habit

• I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Fan
  • Tim Burton
  • Tim

• My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Experience
  • Society
  • Fear

• Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • America
  • Food
  • Creative

• I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Life
  • Work
  • Interesting

• And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Fear

• We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Monsters
  • Competing
  • id

• The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Truth
  • American
  • America

• It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Time
  • Long
  • Truth

• 'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Party
  • Everything
  • Press

• In the studio, there's no tiptoeing. As opposed to big, blow-out arguments, there are just lots of little solutions.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Blow
  • Just
  • Big

• Just find things you think are fun, and then you'll be more inclined to want to go work out.

  

  Ali Krieger
  • Work
  • Fun

• I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given moment is billiard balls whose past determines our future course. That doesn't take into account that we are forever generating internal representations of positive futures and choosing among them.

  

  Martin Seligman
  • Future
  • Past
  • Question

• We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Space
  • Should
  • Moon

• I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Better
  • Did
  • Ohio

• All of us have a 'voice' inside where all inspired thoughts come from. When I talk to children and aspiring writers, I always ask them to turn off the TV and listen to that voice inside them.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Children
  • Thoughts
  • Voice

• A director should not define everything. For me, the movie is a form of a question I pose to the others or to the audience. I want to ask their opinion on my point of view and discuss it with them.

  

  Kim Ki-duk
  • Movie
  • Question
  • Opinion