Park Chan-wook

Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts. So, working with this very intelligent, smart cast meant that sometimes…

— Park Chan-wook

If I want to relax and not do anything, I don't want to leave home.

— Park Chan-wook

The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.

— Park Chan-wook

If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.

— Park Chan-wook

All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't…

— Park Chan-wook

There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.

— Park Chan-wook

The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.

— Park Chan-wook

In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.

— Park Chan-wook

Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.

— Park Chan-wook

When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring…

— Park Chan-wook

I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with…

— Park Chan-wook

I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing…

— Park Chan-wook

Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't…

— Park Chan-wook

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

— Park Chan-wook

I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

— Park Chan-wook

People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are…

— Park Chan-wook

I've read all of Sarah Waters's novels which have been translated into Korean.

— Park Chan-wook

Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.

— Park Chan-wook

Some audiences might find homosexuality an uncomfortable subject matter, and a character who is a Japanese collaborator is always uncomfortable.

— Park Chan-wook

I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.

— Park Chan-wook

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

— Park Chan-wook

When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.

— Park Chan-wook

Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

— Park Chan-wook

When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.

— Park Chan-wook

I tend not to use the humor which would only apply to Koreans, or which would only affect the Koreans, as much…

— Park Chan-wook