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.

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.

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.

The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession.

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

I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer.

There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.