Park Chan-wook Quotes

If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.

I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.

In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

Living without hate for people is almost impossible. There is nothing wrong with fantasizing about revenge. You can have that feeling. You just shouldn't act in it.

If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.

The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.

I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

I actually pay careful attention to that sort of thing - infusing humor into my films - because that's how important I think humor is.

When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.

Sometimes you need these warm, human moments - something that feels close - to help things along.

I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.

I am sure I am one of 2000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara,Coppola, Neil Jordan.

I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.

Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts.

I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.

If I want to relax and not do anything, I don't want to leave home.

I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.

I feel myself becoming more mature and more fascinated and drawn to feminine values.

Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

When I'm writing something, if it gets too serious, I just can't bear it, so I take a step back and take the overall scene in and vent the air a little bit.

In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.

The audience seems hazy to me, shrouded in a veil through which I can't see.

I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.

I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

I have always meticulously storyboarded my films from beginning to end.

Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.

There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.

I do like musical films more than big Hollywood films, especially those by Jacques Demi and Vincent Minelli.

I've read all of Sarah Waters's novels which have been translated into Korean.

Some audiences might find homosexuality an uncomfortable subject matter, and a character who is a Japanese collaborator is always uncomfortable.

In my creative films, if there was something, some humorous moment that is lost to a non-Korean speaking audience, I'll be very sad.

I'd like to do a really masculine film.

Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

I did have a feminist side to me, just not in such a pronounced way.

I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.

I tend not to use the humor which would only apply to Koreans, or which would only affect the Koreans, as much as I can.

I hate jeans for no reason.

As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.

A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.