Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

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

I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.

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.

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

In Korea is what I do is I watch the playback of each take with all of the actors and spend a lot of time discussing each take. Also, I use the process we call auto-assembly because I storyboard my entire film right at the beginning, even before pre-production ever begins, so my vision is already laid out on the storyboard for everybody to share. It enables the on-set assembly person, as we call them, to cut together each take into a sequence. This enables a director to review the take within the context of the sequence of the scene.

I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.