"I always write the script by myself."

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

Bong Joon-ho

#Writing Quotes #Scripts Quotes

“While the other guy's sleeping? I'm working. While the other guy's eatin'? I'm working.”
“I have a ton of cousins on my moms side of the family, and we would put on shows together all the time and put on costumes, and we even charged our parents money.”
“Ms. Merkel is avoiding retirement issues. She simply doesn't want to do anything, although she knows that doing nothing means that real pensions will fall. That is preprogrammed old-age poverty. When it comes to wage fairness: It was Ms. Merkel herself who blocked the establishment of a right to return to a fulltime job after going part time for a period. Yet everyone keeps saying that our platform is identical to that of the conservatives. It's crazy.”
“As long as I'm around playing baseball, it doesn't matter where I am, as long as it's not with the Yankees.”
“If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're turning the story into a totally different thing; the narrative of film is different from that of a book.”
“At this crucial crossroads of history, we join to call on the world to recognize that violence begets violence; that nuclear proliferation benefits no one; that we can, we will, and we must find other ways to protect ourselves, our nations and our future: for it is not sufficient to have peace in our time, but, instead, we must leave a peaceful world to our children.”
“Artists are always searching for beauty - and when they find it and fashion it in their own unique way - it does not seem too important to analyze how it came about.”
“If we must “feel” God's presence before we believe he is with us, we again reduce God to our ability to grasp him, making him an idol instead of acknowledging him as God.”

Source : Craig S. Keener (2001). “Gift and Giver: The Holy Spirit for Today”, p.27, Baker Books

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