Park Chan-wook Quotes

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Park Chan-wook

Profession : Director

Birth : August 23, 1963

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

Park Chan-wook

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

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When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.

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When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.

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Living without hate for people is almost impossible.

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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.

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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

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

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

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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.

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I'd like to do a really masculine film.

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

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

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When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.

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

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

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

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The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.

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I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.

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

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