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

When I'm writing something, if it gets too serious, I just can't bear it, so I take a step back and take the overall scene in and vent the air a little bit.

In my creative films, if there was something, some humorous moment that is lost to a non-Korean speaking audience, I'll be very sad.

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 your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.

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

I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.