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 became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.

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.

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

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

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

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