There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.

I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine'.

In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded.

I regard remaking a film as creating something again.

I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge to make audiences thrill with the excitement of a genre, but I also try to betray and destroy the expectations placed on that genre.

There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.

I have a group of cafes and coffee shops that I go to regularly. They usually have an area where I can plug in my computer and have a corner seat where I can do a couple hours of writing or whatever, even the noise of the surrounding people walking by. Those things are the things that stimulate me into writing.