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All Quotes by author - Bong Joon-ho
" 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. "
Director
Place
Paradise
" I always write the script by myself. "
Script
Myself
Write
" I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director. "
Horror
Style
Director
" I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer. "
Surprising
Make
Goal
" I don't write any kind of sequel or remake. "
Kind
Write
Sequel
" I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge to make audiences thrill with the excitement of a genre, but I also try to betray and destroy the expectations placed on that genre. "
Feeling
Expectations
Love
" I have a group of cafes and coffee shops that I go to regularly. They usually have an area where I can plug in my computer and have a corner seat where I can do a couple hours of writing or whatever, even the noise of the surrounding people walking by. Those things are the things that stimulate me into writing. "
Coffee
Writing
Walking
" I like to draw my storyboards myself. "
Myself
Like
Draw
" I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.' "
Director
Vengeance
Love
" I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance. "
Mothers
Society
Great
" In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas. "
Really
Korean
Only
" In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded. "
Industry
Mid
Open-Minded
" 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. "
Film
You
Wait
" I really love 'The Thing.' "
Thing
Really
Love
" I regard remaking a film as creating something again. "
Regard
Again
Film
" I think when one becomes very close to another person, it can mean loving and intimacy, but on the other hand, there's also the danger of one destructing another under the name of love. I think that is the scariest thing for me in various relationships. "
Think
Love
Loving
" My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, it sums up to a certain genre. So at times even I have to try to guess which genre a film will be after I've made it. "
Inside
Follow
Film
" 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. "
I Can
Creative
I Am
" People have said, 'Why don't you make your own company like Chan-wook Park has his own company,' but my head is full of writing and directing and I don't feel like I want to run a company. That's not really within my personality as well. "
You
People
Personality
" The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession. "
Society
Strong
Mother
" The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories. "
Natural
Come
Ideas
" There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea. "
Censorship
Korea
Any
" The superhero is a really popular figure in the West. In Asia or Korea, the young viewers are amused by the figure, but it is not really so sensational. "
Asia
Figure
Superhero
" Until the end of elementary school, I lived in a suburban area, so the type of village I used to live in is borderline between village and the city, so I'm familiar with the rustic environment. "
Environment
Live
City
" When I was a kid, I was always watching genre movies on TV. "
Movies
TV
Watching
" 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. "
Think
Big
Down
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