When you first think of making a monster movie you have to realize that a lot of people may be down on you because there is a big prejudice against such films.

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

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

I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.

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

When I was a kid, I was always watching genre movies on TV.

I like to draw my storyboards myself.