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.

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

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

Actually, I can't stand watching violent scenes in films; I avoid watching horror films. I don't tend to watch action films mainly because I find them boring, but I watch the films of David Cronenberg and Martin Scorsese, usually in a state close to having a heart attack. I'm a complete coward. I make violent films as a result of my sensitivity to violence - in other words, my fear of violence.

The audience seems hazy to me, shrouded in a veil through which I can't see.

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.

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