"I admit that I sometimes climbed on other fellows' backs. But I used to watch the flight of the ball perhaps more than the other fellow did. Perfect timing, a deep breath and a natural spring then helped me to get above them."

“I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.”

“I believe I never was more acceptable to my Master than when I was standing to teach those hearers in the open fields. I now preach to ten times more people than I would if I had been confined to the churches.”

“When you're growing up, you want to feel part of something.”

“Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.”

“Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.”

“The only reason I'm able to do music is because I'm making money on 'Community.' If I wasn't, I couldn't pay for things.”

“I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.”

Source : "Interview: The Host & Mother Writer/Director Bong Joon-ho". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. March 15, 2010.

“The difference between guilt and shame is very clear--in theory. We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are. A person feels guilt because he did something wrong. A person feels shame because he is something wrong. We may feel guilty because we lied to our mother. We may feel shame because we are not the person our mother wanted us to be.”