Park Chan-wook Professions : Film director Born : August 23, 1963 Browse All Authors Top 64 quotes by Park Chan-wook If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home. Park Chan-wook 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. Park Chan-wook 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. Park Chan-wook fake watches believe 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. Park Chan-wook coward violence heart In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central. Park Chan-wook opinion violence people The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process. Park Chan-wook exacting-revenge revenge process 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. Park Chan-wook uncles flower evil 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 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. Park Chan-wook 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. Park Chan-wook important attention thinking I don't really believe in the auteur theory. Park Chan-wook auteurs theory believe Sometimes you need these warm, human moments - something that feels close - to help things along. Park Chan-wook 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. Park Chan-wook 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. Park Chan-wook air men ideas I feel myself becoming more mature and more fascinated and drawn to feminine values. Park Chan-wook feminine becoming mature I am sure I am one of 2000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires. Park Chan-wook film directors world The audience seems hazy to me, shrouded in a veil through which I can't see. Park Chan-wook 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. Park Chan-wook perspective evil blood 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. Park Chan-wook musician glasses doe In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain. Park Chan-wook our-lives pain good-things Similar Authors Alex Graves film-director Brad Furman film-director Bryan Singer film-director Bruno Dumont film-director Bruce McDonald film-director Bruce Brown film-director All Authors
