Park Chan-wook Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 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

  "Exclusive: I'm A Cyborg Q&A". Interview With Leigh Singer, www.ign.com. April 4, 2008.

• I have always meticulously storyboarded my films from beginning to end.

  Park Chan-wook

  Film, Ends

• 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

  Humorous, Creative, Korean

  "Fantastic Fest 2016 Interview: Co-Writer/Director Park Chan-Wook on THE HANDMAIDEN". Interview with Heather Wixson, dailydead.com. September 25, 2016.

• 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, Musician, Doe

  "Park Chan-wook Talks Differences Between Korean & American Films, How ‘Stoker’ Fits In With His Filmography & More". Interview with Drew Taylor, www.indiewire.com. March 19, 2013.

• 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

  Humorous, Worry, Missing

  "Fantastic Fest 2016 Interview: Co-Writer/Director Park Chan-Wook on THE HANDMAIDEN". Interview with Heather Wixson, dailydead.com. September 25, 2016.

• 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 Films, Bigs

  "Blood-suckers and blood-thirsty revenge: an interview with South Korean director Park Chan-wook". Interview With Jon Herskovitz, blogs.reuters.com. May 13, 2009.

• I'd like to do a really masculine film.

  Park Chan-wook

  Film, Masculine

  "Director Park Chan-Wook Says Another English-Language Picture In The Works, ‘Snowpiercer’ Almost Finished & Talks His Dream Genres" by Drew Taylor, www.indiewire.com. February 28, 2013.

• 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

  Reason Why, Korean, Film

  "Fantastic Fest 2016 Interview: Co-Writer/Director Park Chan-Wook on THE HANDMAIDEN". Interview with Heather Wixson, dailydead.com. September 25, 2016.

• I am sure I am one of 2000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

  Park Chan-wook

  World, Directors, Film

  "Park life". Interview with Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2006.

• 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'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

  Country, America, Important

  "Fantastic Fest 2016 Interview: Co-Writer/Director Park Chan-Wook on THE HANDMAIDEN". Interview with Heather Wixson, dailydead.com. September 24, 2016.

• 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, Film Critics

  Interview With Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. August 6, 2009.

• 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, Violence

• 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

  "Exclusive: I'm A Cyborg Q&A". Interview With Leigh Singer, www.ign.com. April 4, 2008.

• 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

  Cutting, Korea, Vision

  "Park Chan-wook, Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode Talk STOKER, First Impressions to the Script, Reactions to the Completed Film and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 24, 2013.

• I do like musical films more than big Hollywood films, especially those by Jacques Demi and Vincent Minelli.

  Park Chan-wook

  Hollywood Films, Musical, Bigs

• 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

  Home, Thinking, Korea

  "Park Chan-wook, Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode Talk STOKER, First Impressions to the Script, Reactions to the Completed Film and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 24, 2013.

• 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, Violent Films, Because I Can

  "Shock horror! Park Chan-Wook is refreshingly normal". Interview with Andrea Hubert, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2009.

• 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

  Thinking, Important, Attention

  "Fantastic Fest 2016 Interview: Co-Writer/Director Park Chan-Wook on THE HANDMAIDEN". Interview with Heather Wixson, dailydead.com. September 24, 2016.

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