I modeled my work after contemporary masters of art house cinema but felt my voice was missing. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
The films that excite me most tend to be the films that seem like voices that we haven't heard of before. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
I try not to be someone who's preaching a message with my films or anything like that. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
I began my filmmaking career by shooting a feature length documentary in China in 2004, the year I graduated from film school. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
Ingrid Bergman in 'Journey to Italy' just goes off and looks at things for most of the film. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
'Lucky Life' is my second narrative film. I worked on the idea for 'Lucky Life' while in Rwanda for my first film. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up breathing cinema. I had to figure it all out in public. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
The single most eye-opening experience for me and what propelled me to become a filmmaker was that I started to see films… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
Many filmmakers start off with an autobiographical film from childhood, and that's kind of what I was thinking I would do, but… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
I had some early success with my first film and since then it's been a grind. It's clearly a craft that I… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
But for me, at one point I was like, 'Why do I want to make films that people want to walk out… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
When I was thinking of giving up, I was very dissatisfied with the idea that the films that I've made are the… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
But I kind of reframed my thinking, where I don't feel like filmmaking is what defines me anymore. Like, I feel like… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
Any time there is a film in a 'foreign language,' in Spanish or Korean or whatever language, it's usually not an American… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
I went to Rwanda with my wife who had been going for the past three summers. She is an art therapist who… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
Having parents who are chicken sexers - I had trouble explaining that to kids at school! — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share
For a struggling filmmaker running low on ideas, public domain is all we have for adapting books. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share
We grew up in rural Arkansas without any Koreans close by, and when I go to Korea feel out of place. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share
The attention and all the interviews and all that, it has been wild and something that I'm not used to. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share
I remember when I told my parents that I wanted to be a filmmaker, and no longer was I planning to be a doctor,… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share
There's a constant level of risk in farming that so few movies let you feel. I wanted to show some of that, but also,… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share
I was so excited when 'Parasite' won the Oscar last year, and part of that was the shared Korean heritage and also it was… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share
There are a lot of Korean films that will show marital strife, but I'm not sure I've seen so many that will show it… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share
I think one of the things that I had to establish for myself quite early on was the rule that this is not my… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share
Any time there is a film in a 'foreign language,' in Spanish or Korean or whatever language, it's usually not an American film. It's… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share
I know, it's disturbing that gentle looking people have such violence, but I believe we all have a penchant for violence in us. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share
My father came to America believing in the romantic dream of what he saw in films like 'Big Country' and 'Giant' - this fertile… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share
There's a lot of regret that I have about not showing my proper gratitude to my grandmother. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share
I didn't grow up breathing cinema. I had to figure it all out in public. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share
