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.

Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

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.

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.

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

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.