Bong Joon-ho Quotes

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

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

There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.

When you first think of making a monster movie you have to realize that a lot of people may be down on you because there is a big prejudice against such films.

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

I don't write any kind of sequel or remake.

I regard remaking a film as creating something again.

I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer.

The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession.

I like to draw my storyboards myself.

When I was a kid, I was always watching genre movies on TV.

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

I always write the script by myself.