If I want to relax and not do anything, I don't want to leave home.

I'd like to do a really masculine film.

I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

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

Not only do I look at the playback with the actors, but I look at the on-set assembly footage with the sequences with my actors as well. These are the reasons why I take twice as much time to shoot a film in Korea. Thinking back, I remember on my first ever Korean film, I never used any playback or on-set assembly, so all I had to do was to tell myself it's just like making my first ever Korean-language film. After that, I felt right at home.

I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.

I hate jeans for no reason.