I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

The audience seems hazy to me, shrouded in a veil through which I can't see.

A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.

In my creative films, if there was something, some humorous moment that is lost to a non-Korean speaking audience, I'll be very sad.

I've grown up watching a lot of Western genre films on TV, and America is not just a country, but it's one of the most important countries in the world, and examining the process of how this nation came to be, it's an important thing, even for outsiders.

When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.

A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.