Top 51 Quotes About Woon
#1. I never make films thinking 'This is my film. This right here is undoubtedly Kim Jee-Woon style.' I am not even sure what 'Kim Jee-Woon style' is. When I make films, I never allow myself to make hard-set decisions ahead of time.
Kim Jee-woon
#2. When darkness falls and eyes stay shut
A chain of voices opens up.
Let wax not wane give breath to death.
p.s. Shhh -Yvonne Woon(Dead Beautiful)
Yvonne Woon
#3. 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
#4. Rules help us live our lives
when we lose the will to do it on our own
Yvonne Woon
#5. I've made the film 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird,' which was an Eastern Western film. Obviously, the Western film is American and American only; there's really no Western genre over in Asia.
Kim Jee-woon
#6. All the songs were written on guitar and then put into the computer, where I played around with different sounds I was hearing and what was available in the software.
Jamie Woon
#7. I ... was impulsive and skinny, and wished that I could be more like a character in a novel, so I would finally stop blurting out the wrong things at the wrong time.
Yvonne Woon
#8. Actors are the flowers of the film, of the set, and of the director. The term 'Flowers of the Screen' holds a deep meaning.
Kim Jee-woon
#9. America is a country that, even with all its flaws, has been able to flourish because there is a certain ideology about fighting for what you believe in. What you choose to believe in - no matter how small or big it is - is what you believe in, and that ideology has made America.
Kim Jee-woon
#10. Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking.
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. mountain range in northwestern
Hank Woon
#13. I casually listen to mixes, but I don't know all the names of the tunes and the producers and stuff. It's hard to keep up with.
Jamie Woon
#14. 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
#15. The Western is as American as a film can get - there's the discovery of a frontier, the element of a showdown, revenge, and determining the best gunman. There's a certain masculinity to the Western that really appealed to me, and I've always wanted to do a Western in Hollywood.
Kim Jee-woon
#16. Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.
Kim Ji-woon
#17. I want to work with a wide range of genres because it gives each film a different cinematic energy.
Kim Ji-woon
#19. Interestingly, my first director's cut was an hour and forty-one minutes. Then, the studio actually wanted to add more to the story, so we went all the way up to an hour and forty-seven minutes. After that, I made some additional cuts and now we are where we are.
Kim Jee-woon
#20. Overseas directors who want to work in Hollywood, the language barrier is not a problem. With the right talent, any director can be successful.
Kim Jee-woon
#22. I'm not afraid of death ... I'm afraid of life without you.
Yvonne Woon
#23. I often don't go to sleep and work through the night. I can't seem to do my vocal takes if there's light outside. There's a gentleness to the night that leads me in my stride.
Jamie Woon
#24. Initially, before I came to Hollywood, I thought that the language barrier would be the biggest challenge, but I realized that actors all around the world, regardless of language, are all the same.
Kim Jee-woon
#25. I'd like to give the audience what they've always wanted to see and also I want to give the audience what they've never seen. It's these two things I'm striving for.
Kim Jee-woon
#26. Whatever it is that I thirst for in my current project tends to turn up in my following project.
Kim Ji-woon
#27. I work from opposites to opposites, in a way. It's finding one thing and then doing the other from film to film. So maybe after 'I Saw the Devil,' I might do something like 'I Saw the Angel' or perhaps something warm and happy.
Kim Jee-woon
#28. I've been thinking of doing a sci-fi thriller or a sci-fi noir, if that's possible.
Kim Ji-woon
#29. Crying only makes your problems last longer.
Yvonne Woon
#30. 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
#31. In Korea, the director is on top, and the power flows down vertically. On the set, I love to come up with ideas on the spot. But in Hollywood, if I were to come up with a certain idea on set, the idea had to be taken to all these different people who had to agree.
Kim Jee-woon
#32. How do you measure someone's life? By the scope of their accomplishments, or the number of people they've touched, or by the width of a hand? None of it seemed fair. None of it seemed like enough.
Yvonne Woon
#33. I want to do science fiction with dark stories.
Kim Ji-woon
#34. With Dante gone, time seemed to stand still around me; the mornings just as cloudy and dark as the evenings, as if the sun had never decided to rise. There was no wind, like the world was holding its breath along with me, waiting for him to return.
Yvonne Woon
#35. Sometimes, you have to look back in order to understand the things that lie ahead.
Yvonne Woon
#36. 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
#37. I walked when I should have run
I ran when I should have walked
And don't I know it, don't I know it
Jamie Woon
#38. I think my tendency when working is to try and find what's lacking in my current project and then tackle that in whatever I do next.
Kim Jee-woon
#39. I now understood that real secrets were lonely. They planted themselves inside of you and expanded, until you felt like that was all you were-a lonely little secret, isolated in your experiences.
Yvonne Woon
#40. I prefer to work the old-fashioned way. I trie to do everything or most of his action sequences practically, because I feel that while added effects or the VFX process allows for flashier sequences, I feel that it lacks the energy we see in practical effects.
Kim Jee-woon
#41. Lionsgate and Lorenzo di Bonaventura saw my Korean Western-style film, 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird,' and probably felt that I would be right for 'The Last Stand,' which could be classified as a modern Western.
Kim Jee-woon
#42. In Korea, the director has the final word. If the director makes a decision, that decision is final. In Hollywood, every decision needs to go through the producer, the studio, and sometimes even the main actor. There is a certain procedure that needs to be followed.
Kim Jee-woon
#43. I've been into gear for a long time, but I never saw myself as a producer because I didn't have the patience to finish things in a professional way.
Jamie Woon
#44. I'm not an outgoing person. Compared to an average person, I am quite skeptical and pessimistic. This is different from being nervous.
Kim Jee-woon
#45. It helps sometimes to dwell on the good memories. They remind you that happiness does exist, though it may not seem that way now.
Yvonne Woon
#46. Of course, 'The Last Stand' has a villain who is traveling to the border to fulfill his own desires, but it's more about the main character. The Sheriff putting a stop to this villain and defending his town. 'The Last Stand' is more about protecting something. About protecting a value.
Kim Jee-woon
#47. Why are you doing this? I want you to be alive."
"Because," he said, tracing a finger along my cheek. "Real love is selfless.
Yvonne Woon
#48. Korean films have always been distributed to international audiences as arthouse films.
Kim Ji-woon
#49. One quality that a director needs to acquire in Hollywood is to understand the system and figure out how to work within the system to express one's own ideas.
Kim Jee-woon
#50. She smiled, 'Oh, I'd like to believe that I'm always in love with something. After all, what else is there?
Yvonne Woon
#51. 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird' is about individuals fulfilling their desires and just going the distance to fulfill that desire.
Kim Jee-woon
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