I always write the script by myself.

As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers.

I really hate the creature film convention that says you have to wait until the end to see the monster. One hour and all you've seen is just the tip of the creature's tail.

There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.

I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.

No matter where I am working, I cannot make a film without 100% creative control and final cut. If there is such a guarantee, I can work anywhere.

The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.

I think each film should be regarded as its own specific text.

In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas.

In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded.

I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine'.

Sebab Tuhan selalu punya cara untuk kita menemukan takdir kita sendiri -forgotten

This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull.

The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

I think therefore I seem to be.

The problem in child care, which really all of us are going to have to think hard on, is that there is no really great solution that we can come up with for ages zero to three.

When advertising is great, it's transcendent. It's art.

I loved everything about marriage. I loved having a companion to wake up with and have barbecues with. But things happen and people grow apart.

This isn't the first time the world has come to an end, and it won't be the last either.

There is no other way to know good from evil, right from wrong, unless we have His Word dwelling richly in our heart. It's good for us to spend time in His Word.

We must have the hope to be able to succeed.