Ed Park Quotes

As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.

I tend not to use the humor which would only apply to Koreans, or which would only affect the Koreans, as much as I can.

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.

I'd like to do a really masculine film.

In my creative films, if there was something, some humorous moment that is lost to a non-Korean speaking audience, I'll be very sad.

Some audiences might find homosexuality an uncomfortable subject matter, and a character who is a Japanese collaborator is always uncomfortable.

I've read all of Sarah Waters's novels which have been translated into Korean.

I do like musical films more than big Hollywood films, especially those by Jacques Demi and Vincent Minelli.

There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.

A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.

Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

I have always meticulously storyboarded my films from beginning to end.

I like to have success experiences rather than failure experiences. So I'm more likely to compete in things I'm good at, and more likely to spend time on the things I expect to succeed at.

Consider surgeons and their work. It's unthinkable to put your hands in the warm blood of another human's gut. Even with rubber gloves on. Who'd want to do that? But surgeons get over it.

Celebrity stalkers also are not necessarily fixated on one person as the public thinks. Rather, they tend to switch targets, going from, say, an athlete to an actor to a politician.

Corruption hates what is not corrupt.

This Christmas, every Christmas, Santa Claus is everywhere and Jesus is nowhere to be found.

I pretty much ate everything that I like and I've always wanted to eat and I just didn't hold myself back and it was the best.

I'm a boy who doesn't want to grow up.

Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right.

Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.

I mean, look, the government is not a startup obviously. But projects to change government I think are best thought of as startups.

I will not talk of my own happiness, ' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?

Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.

…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be

By the time she awoke she couldn’t even remember if she had a dream or a nightmare. There had only been a deathlike peace.

...And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.

I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But with you there may be peace. You will not want to be talked to. Let us have the luxury of silence.

So long divided and so differently situated, the ties of blood were little more than nothing.

I feel as if I could be any thing or every thing, as if I could rant and storm, or sigh, or cut capers in any tragedy or comedy in the English language.

I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see they are often wrong.

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in theirpower, which no subsequent connections can supply..

He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…

Her feelings were very acute, and too little understood to be properly attended to. Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their way to secure her comfort.

Much was said, and much was ate, and all went well.

Now to tell ya about our fellow inmates. Pay attention because there are a bunch of us an’ we each have a story.

Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, nor without?

Poor woman! She probably thought change of air might agree with many of her children.

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these."- Mr. Darcy

There’s one last reason why none of us ever tries to escape. There are a few of us who just don’t have anywhere else to go.

The United States always seems to have a way of playing the international cop of the world.

Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself.

Can't you just like a girl who likes you back?''None of them likes me back. I may as well like the one I really want.

She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet.If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away.

If you can’t save your own life, is it even worth saving?

The friends you make in college are friends you'll have for life, even if you don't talk for years at a time.

Normal people can become very annoying if put in annoying situations.