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

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.

When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.

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

As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.

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

I am sure I am one of 2000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.