Ed Park Quotes

My first publication was a haiku in a children's magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave the check to my dad for Christmas, and he framed it and hung it over his desk.

Data by itself is not useful. Data is only useful if it can be applied for public benefit.

The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.

In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.

If the mother can't break the attachment, they say that the baby can't leave this world. For him to be happy in a good place you must send the child that you must send... and you must live.

A person has to live in a house for it not to break down.

I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.

I will keep the promise I made to you to open a new era on the Korean peninsula, based on strong security and trust-based diplomacy.

I will open an era of grand national unity.

National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.

I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.

All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.

I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful.

Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts.

I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara,Coppola, Neil Jordan.

If I want to relax and not do anything, I don't want to leave home.

I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.

I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.

I am sure I am one of 2000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.

My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.

After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become 'A Grand Day Out.

Gromit was the name of a cat. When I started modeling the cat I just didn't feel it was quite right, so I made it into a dog because he could have a bigger nose and bigger, longer legs.

I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!

Reading for writers is like training for athletes.

All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life.

Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

Silicon Bayou - aka Lafayette, LA - is the best kept secret reservoir of innovation mojo in America

I've met so many fans over the years and some have actually become friends of mine and I actually look forward to sharing my stories.

There's one stereotype in the industry that Asian people aren't funny, I've heard that over and over again.

Even if you didn't come to meet me, I'm just going to like you.

As long as you have the memories, you can be with that person forever.

Only the individual can decide what level of risk she can tolerate and what level of freedom she's willing to sacrifice for the sake of safety.

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.

I feel myself becoming more mature and more fascinated and drawn to feminine values.

Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

When I'm writing something, if it gets too serious, I just can't bear it, so I take a step back and take the overall scene in and vent the air a little bit.

In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.

The audience seems hazy to me, shrouded in a veil through which I can't see.

With some CGI, I think the brain slightly perceives that things aren't real. There's no gravity, the light's not quite real, the shadows aren't quite real.

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?

Wanting more majors, wanting more wins, almost feels like I think Im being too greedy.

This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, thats something a professional golfer has to handle.

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.

Honestlythese two were not on the recommended list.