Park Chan-wook famous quotes

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

#Home #Vacation #Destination

Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts.
-- Park Chan-wook

#People #Actors #Emotion

The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.
-- Park Chan-wook

#Revenge #Process #Completion

I have always meticulously storyboarded my films from beginning to end.
-- Park Chan-wook

#Film #Ends

I hate jeans for no reason.
-- Park Chan-wook

#Hate #Jeans #I Hate

I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.
-- Park Chan-wook

#Real #Film #Violent

I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
-- Park Chan-wook

#Catholic #Church #Week

I don't really believe in the auteur theory.
-- Park Chan-wook

#Believe #Auteurs #Theory

I do like musical films more than big Hollywood films, especially those by Jacques Demi and Vincent Minelli.
-- Park Chan-wook

#Musical #Hollywood #Film

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

#Revenge #Hate #People

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

#Office #Want #Workplace

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

#Temptation #Desire #Encounters

As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
-- Park Chan-wook

#Wife #World #Growing

Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
-- Park Chan-wook

#Mean #Identity #Vampire

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

#May #Way #Cinema

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

#Stars #Hollywood #Film

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

#Heart #Coward #Watches

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

#People #Violence #Opinion

In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.
-- Park Chan-wook

#Pain #Good Things

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

#Vampire #Abel #Nosferatu

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.
-- Park Chan-wook

#Limits #Scripts #Fit

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

#Men #Air #Ideas

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

#Growing Up #School #Devil

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

#Long #Process #Ask Me

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

#Home #Relax #Want

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

#Water #Korean #Novel

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

#Messages #Directors #Kind

I'd like to do a really masculine film.
-- Park Chan-wook

#Film #Masculine

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

#Glasses #Doe #Musician

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

#Believe #Fake #Watches

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 #Believe #Love Is

I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.
-- Park Chan-wook

#Couple #Successful #Firsts

I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
-- Park Chan-wook

#World #Directors #Film