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.

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

I feel myself becoming more mature and more fascinated and drawn to feminine values.

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 am sure I am one of 2000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.

I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.