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.

A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.

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 tend not to use the humor which would only apply to Koreans, or which would only affect the Koreans, as much as I can.

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'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.