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Living without hate for people...

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.

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I've read all of Sarah Waters'...

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

Park Chan-Wook 40 quotes

If I want to relax and not do ...

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

Park Chan-Wook 40 quotes

If you would ask me what my id...

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

Park Chan-Wook 40 quotes

When I was growing up, we were...

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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I don't usually watch a lot of...

I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.

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I'd love to do a sci-fi movie,...

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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I've always had an interest in...

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.

Park Chan-Wook 40 quotes

Actors are professionals who d...

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

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Actually, I can't stand watchi...

Actually, I can't stand watching violent scenes in films; I avoid watching horror films. I don't tend to watch action films mainly because I find them boring, but I watch the films of David Cronenberg and Martin Scorsese, usually in a state close to having a heart attack. I'm a complete coward. I make violent films as a result of my sensitivity to violence - in other words, my fear of violence.

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I'm not the kind of director w...

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

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Ever since I arrived in Americ...

Ever since I arrived in America to promote 'Stoker,' I haven't had time to go and see it in a theater. The fact that I had to shoot twice as fast as I'm used to in Korea was the most challenging thing about my Hollywood experience.

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In Korea is what I do is I wat...

In Korea is what I do is I watch the playback of each take with all of the actors and spend a lot of time discussing each take. Also, I use the process we call auto-assembly because I storyboard my entire film right at the beginning, even before pre-production ever begins, so my vision is already laid out on the storyboard for everybody to share. It enables the on-set assembly person, as we call them, to cut together each take into a sequence. This enables a director to review the take within the context of the sequenc

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Not only do I look at the play...

Not only do I look at the playback with the actors, but I look at the on-set assembly footage with the sequences with my actors as well. These are the reasons why I take twice as much time to shoot a film in Korea. Thinking back, I remember on my first ever Korean film, I never used any playback or on-set assembly, so all I had to do was to tell myself it's just like making my first ever Korean-language film. After that, I felt right at home.

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Actors are professionals who d...

Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts. So, working with this very intelligent, smart cast meant that sometimes I would only have to start speaking a word and these wonderful actors would immediately catch onto what I wanted them to portray, and how I wanted them to act.

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Certainly, it includes that. I...

Certainly, it includes that. I want the story to be interpreted in as many ways as possible, and of course, the bad blood aspect of it included. For instance, perhaps this is a story not about the hereditary nature of evil, but rather you could interpret it from a different perspective, too.

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You could say that evil is con...

You could say that evil is contagious in that we have this mesmerizing mentor in Uncle Charlie who comes into your life. Every person has a seed of evil inside them, and when you come across such a mesmerizing mentor, he is able to successfully turn it into a flower of evil.

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There's a humble beauty about ...

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

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Whenever I visit a city, I lik...

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

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The audience seems hazy to me,...

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

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