I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out. Park Chan-wook More Quotes by Park Chan-wook More Quotes From 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. Park Chan-wook workplaceofficewant If you are watching my films and wondering, am I missing humorous speak because I'm not Korean? Am I missing out? You don't have to worry, because you're only missing probably about a few cents worth out of your ticket price. Park Chan-wook humorousmissingworry I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars. Park Chan-wook hollywood-filmsbigsstars 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 nosferatuabelvampire When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils. Park Chan-wook devilgrowing-upschool 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 sequence of the scene. Park Chan-wook koreavisioncutting When I'm writing something, if it gets too serious, I just can't bear it, so I take a step back and take the overall scene in and vent the air a little bit. Park Chan-wook airwritinglittles 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. Park Chan-wook koreahomethinking Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer. Park Chan-wook classical-musicconcertscities If I want to relax and not do anything, I don't want to leave home. Park Chan-wook relaxwanthome I've grown up watching a lot of Western genre films on TV, and America is not just a country, but it's one of the most important countries in the world, and examining the process of how this nation came to be, it's an important thing, even for outsiders. Park Chan-wook importantcountryamerica Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts. Park Chan-wook emotionactorspeople 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. Park Chan-wook smartintelligentpeople I tend not to use the humor which would only apply to Koreans, or which would only affect the Koreans, as much as I can. Park Chan-wook koreani-canuse In my creative films, if there was something, some humorous moment that is lost to a non-Korean speaking audience, I'll be very sad. Park Chan-wook koreanhumorouscreative 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. Park Chan-wook koreachallengesamerica I did have a feminist side to me, just not in such a pronounced way. Park Chan-wook feministsidesway Some audiences might find homosexuality an uncomfortable subject matter, and a character who is a Japanese collaborator is always uncomfortable. Park Chan-wook mattermightcharacter A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural. Park Chan-wook encounterstemptationdesire I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week. Park Chan-wook weekcatholicchurch
