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.

As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers.

I think each film should be regarded as its own specific text.

In the grand scheme of nature, I believe that it is very natural that animals eat animals, and that humans eat animals. It is only in the last couple of decades that meat-processing factories have come to rise, and I believe we should take time to reflect on that reality.

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

I always write the script by myself.

The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.