Ever since I arrived in America to promote Stoker, I haven't had time to go and see it in a theater. The fact that I had to shoot twice as fast as I'm used to in Korea was the most challenging thing about my Hollywood experience.

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

I do like musical films more than big Hollywood films, especially those by Jacques Demi and Vincent Minelli.

I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.

Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

I've grown up watching a lot of Western genre films on TV, and America is not just a country, but it's one of the most important countries in the world, and examining the process of how this nation came to be, it's an important thing, even for outsiders.