Ji Woon Quotes

#1. Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly ... all this will be made clear in the course of the operation, for whatever duration it takes.

Ari Fleischer

#2. Who are you?"
"No one of consequence."
"I must know."
"Get used to disappointment.

William Goldman

#3. Whatever it is that I thirst for in my current project tends to turn up in my following project.

Kim Ji-woon

#4. No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.

Lord Byron

#5. I want to work with a wide range of genres because it gives each film a different cinematic energy.

Kim Ji-woon

#6. That's the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition
it is.

Gayle Forman

#7. Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.

Kim Ji-woon

#8. The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

Anderson Cooper

#9. We all desire things that we believe we cannot have, and so my films reflect that again and again. The mystery must be solved, the goal attained.

Kim Ji-woon

#10. I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films: I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell.

Kim Ji-woon

#11. My background is in acting, so I enjoy being able to show what I'm looking for. With acting, it's very immediate when you show someone what you're looking for, and the feedback is instantaneous as well.

Kim Ji-woon

#12. Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking.

Kim Ji-woon

#13. Korean films have always been distributed to international audiences as arthouse films.

Kim Ji-woon

#14. I've been thinking of doing a sci-fi thriller or a sci-fi noir, if that's possible.

Kim Ji-woon

#15. A lot of people are very interested that a Korean director has made a western. But when I look at the reactions of the audience, I realise the points at which people laugh are the same for a Korean audience and an international audience.

Kim Ji-woon

#16. I want to do science fiction with dark stories.

Kim Ji-woon

#17. What can possibly be the common factor in a Kim Jee-woon film? I think what really ties a lot of my projects together is that there is always a character that believes his life is not exactly the way he wishes it to be.

Kim Ji-woon