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

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've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara,Coppola, Neil Jordan.

Actually, I can't stand watching violent scenes in films; I avoid watching horror films. I don't tend to watch action films mainly because I find them boring, but I watch the films of David Cronenberg and Martin Scorsese, usually in a state close to having a heart attack. I'm a complete coward. I make violent films as a result of my sensitivity to violence - in other words, my fear of violence.

In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.

I have always meticulously storyboarded my films from beginning to end.

I tend not to use the humor which would only apply to Koreans, or which would only affect the Koreans, as much as I can.