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

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.

A life based on [religious] faith is a life based on pure speculation, and speculation is, by its very definition, unsound.

Everything that I design I would wear myself.

You don't normally think of Los Angeles as a place to go to get away.

Do you know how beautiful you are?' I shook my head 'I'm not. But you make me fell like I am.' I wanted to be beautiful. To him. For him. I didn't care how anybody else saw me. Only Ethan.

I wish I were taller and thinner but the hair you can do something about.

And sometimes the show can't go on.

Love alone can explain the mysteries of Love.

I was forever changed by my experience on "Once and Again." All of us who were on that show have deep connections... familial connections.

We want to believe that we can continue doing what we've done for the past thousand years and not worry about the consequences coming back to us.