You could say that evil is contagious in that we have this mesmerizing mentor in Uncle Charlie who comes into your life. Every person has a seed of evil inside them, and when you come across such a mesmerizing mentor, he is able to successfully turn it into a flower of evil.

I've read all of Sarah Waters's novels which have been translated into Korean.

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

If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.

The reason why I always wanted to make an American film was because of the Western genre. It is something that I would very much like to make in the future, because it's very uniquely American, and I can't make a Western film in Korean.

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

Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts. So, working with this very intelligent, smart cast meant that sometimes I would only have to start speaking a word and these wonderful actors would immediately catch onto what I wanted them to portray, and how I wanted them to act.