Quotes by Park Chan-wook

Park Chan-wook

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

Office

Want

Workplace

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

Desire

Encounters

Temptation

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

Actors

Emotion

People

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.

Intelligent

People

Smart

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.

Coward

Heart

Violence

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

Growing

Wife

World

Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

Identity

Mean

Vampire

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

Cinema

May

Way

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.

Blood

Evil

Perspective

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.

America

Challenges

Korea

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Abel

Actors

Air

America

Ask Me

Attention

Audience

Auteurs

Because I Can

Becoming

Believe

Bigs

Blood

Catholic

Challenges

Character

Church

Cinema

Cities

Classical Music

Concerts

Country

Couple

Coward

Creative

Cutting

Desire

Destination

Devil

Directors

Doe

Emotion

Encounters

Ends

Evil

Exacting Revenge

Fake

Feminine

Feminist

Film

Film Critics

Fit

Flower

Glasses

Good Things

Growing

Growing Up

Hate

Hazy

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Quotes by Park Chan-wook

Park Chan-wook

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

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

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

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

Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

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

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.

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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