Film Quotes by Lee Isaac Chung

14 Film quotes by Lee Isaac Chung

Lee Isaac Chung’s fourteen observations distill his thoughtful, character‑driven approach to cinema. The snippets provide a compact view of how he blends personal narrative with broader cultural currents.

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Film shoots generally don't smell good.

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I was an art house guy, making little, not-much-happening films.

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Ingrid Bergman in 'Journey to Italy' just goes off and looks at things for most of the film.

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I began my filmmaking career by shooting a feature length documentary in China in 2004, the year I graduated from film school.

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'Lucky Life' is my second narrative film. I worked on the idea for 'Lucky Life' while in Rwanda for my first film.

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The films that excite me most tend to be the films that seem like voices that we haven't heard of before.

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I try not to be someone who's preaching a message with my films or anything like that.

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What I noticed is that the lens from which people want to look at 'Minari' is just from that Asian-American angle. And…

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I was so excited when 'Parasite' won the Oscar last year, and part of that was the shared Korean heritage and also…

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I had some early success with my first film and since then it's been a grind. It's clearly a craft that I…

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Any time there is a film in a 'foreign language,' in Spanish or Korean or whatever language, it's usually not an American…

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But for me, at one point I was like, 'Why do I want to make films that people want to walk out…

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I think one of the things that I had to establish for myself quite early on was the rule that this is…

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I just hope that in some ways, 'Minari' can pave the way for other filmmakers, other actors, other projects that maybe don't…

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Having parents who are chicken sexers - I had trouble explaining that to kids at school!

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We grew up in rural Arkansas without any Koreans close by, and when I go to Korea feel out of place.

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The attention and all the interviews and all that, it has been wild and something that I'm not used to.

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I remember when I told my parents that I wanted to be a filmmaker, and no longer was I planning to be a doctor,…

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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,…

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I was so excited when 'Parasite' won the Oscar last year, and part of that was the shared Korean heritage and also it was…

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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…

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I thought I would go into philosophy and political science.

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I think one of the things that I had to establish for myself quite early on was the rule that this is not my…

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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…

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I know, it's disturbing that gentle looking people have such violence, but I believe we all have a penchant for violence in us.

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My father came to America believing in the romantic dream of what he saw in films like 'Big Country' and 'Giant' - this fertile…

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There's a lot of regret that I have about not showing my proper gratitude to my grandmother.

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I didn't grow up breathing cinema. I had to figure it all out in public.

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