I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.

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 always write the script by myself.

Chirren is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two.

Lewis Booth and Derrick Kuzak represent the very best of Ford and our culture and built a legacy of leadership, integrity and commitment to excellence that will benefit us for years to come.

The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.

Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

Our body is a machine for living.

I went to college and stage school, and thought about acting, but... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians.

To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen.

Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.

Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.

The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.