I regard remaking a film as creating something again.

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.

The definition of Brevity: That which people believe would be a virtue - in me!

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.

Do you want to live in a world where a man lies about calories?

The most highly prized curve of all is that of the bosom.

The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.

There's something really nice about not sitting separate from the crew in some massive trailer away from the studio. To actually be there with them, it's more of a creative process.

Wit is like caviar - it should be served in small portions and not spread about like marmalade.

Santa Barbara people are conservative-not like in L.A., where everybody wears rhinestones on their glasses to show that they own an airplane factory.

I think about the body kind of all the time, being as how I'm really uncomfortable in mine.