When I'm writing something, if it gets too serious, I just can't bear it, so I take a step back and take the overall scene in and vent the air a little bit.

The reason why I always wanted to make an American film was because of the Western genre. It is something that I would very much like to make in the future, because it's very uniquely American, and I can't make a Western film in Korean.

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

Some audiences might find homosexuality an uncomfortable subject matter, and a character who is a Japanese collaborator is always uncomfortable.

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

In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

I do like musical films more than big Hollywood films, especially those by Jacques Demi and Vincent Minelli.