Top 67 Wook Quotes
#1. People have said, 'Why don't you make your own company like Chan-wook Park has his own company,' but my head is full of writing and directing and I don't feel like I want to run a company. That's not really within my personality as well.
Bong Joon-ho
#2. When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring process, I wouldn't ever dream of it.
Park Chan-wook
#4. Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts.
Park Chan-wook
#5. The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.
Park Chan-wook
#6. I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.
Park Chan-wook
#7. I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara, Coppola, Neil Jordan.
Park Chan-wook
#8. All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
Park Chan-wook
#9. It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.
Park Chan-wook
#10. In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.
Park Chan-wook
#11. There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.
Park Chan-wook
#12. Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
Park Chan-wook
#13. If I want to relax and not do anything, I don't want to leave home.
Park Chan-wook
#14. When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.
Park Chan-wook
#15. Living without hate for people is almost impossible.
Park Chan-wook
#16. Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
Park Chan-wook
#17. We have an opportunity to focus global attention on what should be obvious: every mother, and every child, counts. They count because we value every human life. The evidence is clear that healthy mothers and children are the bedrock of healthy and prosperous communities and nations.
Lee Jong-wook
#18. A bond as important as that of a husband and wife, is the bond between siblings.
Lee Dong-wook
#20. As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
Park Chan-wook
#21. Page 3 is a crazy concept whereby for no discernable reason, a national newspaper prints a photograph of a young woman showing her tits. I'd object but I'm too enamoured with the boobs ...
Russell Brand
#22. When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.
Park Chan-wook
#23. In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
Park Chan-wook
#24. It's not free. I gave it to you so that you'd answer my calls right away.
Lee Jin-wook
#25. Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.
Park Chan-wook
#26. When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.
Park Chan-wook
#27. A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.
Park Chan-wook
#28. When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
Park Chan-wook
#29. Every once in a while she'll get worked up and cry like that. But that's ok. She's letting her feelings out. The scary thing is not being able to do that. Then your feelings build up and harden and die inside. That's when you're in big trouble.
Haruki Murakami
#30. Nothing makes a person weaker than complicated thinking.
Lee Jin-wook
#31. I live in a rural residential area. It's a great place for a walk. I'm at my happiest when I'm listening to my iPod while walking around where my feet take me.
Park Chan-wook
#32. When I say that I am going to do an American film, I didn't want to suddenly go off into a completely different world that which bears no relation to the style of filmmaking that I'm used to.
Park Chan-wook
#33. If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
Park Chan-wook
#34. Thousands of women could be saved each year if they had access to skilled care during pregnancy and childbirth, and access to emergency obstetric care. Most of the interventions they need are simple, affordable, and highly effective.
Lee Jong-wook
#35. When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.
Park Chan-wook
#36. I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.
Park Chan-wook
#37. I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.
Park Chan-wook
#38. People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
Park Chan-wook
#39. I've read all of Sarah Waters's novels which have been translated into Korean.
Park Chan-wook
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.
Park Chan-wook
#43. Our message today is one of hope. It is about potential waiting to be fulfilled: the surest way to meet the global challenges we face now and in the future is to make every mother and child count.
Lee Jong-wook
#44. I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.
Park Chan-wook
#45. The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.
Park Chan-wook
#46. I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
Park Chan-wook
#47. 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
#48. Certainly, it includes that. I want the story to be interpreted in as many ways as possible, and of course, the bad blood aspect of it included. For instance, perhaps this is a story not about the hereditary nature of evil, but rather you could interpret it from a different perspective, too.
Park Chan-wook
#49. Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.
Park Chan-wook
#50. Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
Park Chan-wook
#51. Ever since I arrived in America to promote "Stoker," I haven't had time to go and see it in a theater. The fact that I had to shoot twice as fast as I'm used to in Korea was the most challenging thing about my Hollywood experience.
Park Chan-wook
#52. I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
Park Chan-wook
#53. Things that happen along the way determine the final result. I think the pain and suffering I went through in the past ... lead me here today.
Lee Dong-wook
#54. I have always meticulously storyboarded my films from beginning to end.
Park Chan-wook
#55. I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.
Park Chan-wook
#56. Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
Park Chan-wook
#57. The audience seems hazy to me, shrouded in a veil through which I can't see.
Park Chan-wook
#58. You could say that evil is contagious in that we have this mesmerizing mentor in Uncle Charlie who comes into your life. Every person has a seed of evil inside them, and when you come across such a mesmerizing mentor, he is able to successfully turn it into a flower of evil.
Park Chan-wook
#60. I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
Park Chan-wook
#61. I do like musical films more than big Hollywood films, especially those by Jacques Demi and Vincent Minelli.
Park Chan-wook
#62. A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.
Park Chan-wook
#63. Studying is also important, but we must become humans first.
Lee Jin-wook
#64. I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.
Park Chan-wook
#65. I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
Park Chan-wook
#66. I don't think I've ever tried to make something happen that I've absolutely had to force. You know how they say: if you can't avoid it, enjoy it. For me, it's the other way around: if I can't enjoy it, I avoid it.
Park Chan-wook
#67. When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.
Park Chan-wook
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