I always tell the younger filmmakers and students: Do it like the painters used to...Study they old masters. Enrich your palette. Expand the canvas. There's always so much more to learn.

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite satisfied.

Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.

I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.

I happen to like vampires more than zombies.

There is something particularly unique about the films of Hong Sang-soo...it's got to do with his masterful sense of storytelling... as the critic Manny Farber once said of Hitchcock's ROPE Hong Sang-soo's pictures unpeel like an orange.