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

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vacation destination home

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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hate revenge people

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

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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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coward violence heart

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

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

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exacting-revenge revenge process

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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ask-me process long

The reason why I always wanted to make an American film was because of the Western genre. It is something that I would very much like to make in the future, because it's very uniquely American, and I can't make a Western film in Korean.

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korean film reason-why

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

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important attention thinking

I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

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auteurs theory believe

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

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helping sometimes needs

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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nice love-is believe

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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air men ideas

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

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feminine becoming mature

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

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film directors world

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

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hazy audience veils

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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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.

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

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our-lives pain good-things

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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