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.

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

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.

I'd like to do a really masculine film.

I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

I feel myself becoming more mature and more fascinated and drawn to feminine values.

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