Quotes by Bong Joon-Ho - Page 1

I always write the script by myself.
Bong Joon-Ho / Film Director
Scripts
Writing
Script
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I like to draw my storyboards myself.
Bong Joon-Ho / Film Director
Myself Like
Draw
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I don't write any kind of sequel or remake.
Bong Joon-Ho / Film Director
Kind
Remakes
Writing
Remake
Sequel
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There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.
Bong Joon-Ho / Film Director
Censorship
Korea
Hardly
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I regard remaking a film as creating something again.
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Creating
Creating Something
Film
Regard
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When I was a kid, I was always watching genre movies on TV.
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Kids
Genre
Tvs
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I think each film should be regarded as its own specific text.
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Film
Should
Thinking
Regarded
Specific
Text
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In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded.
Bong Joon-Ho / Film Director
Film
Film Industry
Korean
Open Minded
Mid
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In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas.
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Film
Korean
Strong
Tradition
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I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.
Bong Joon-Ho / Film Director
Genre
Horror
Horror Genre
Monsters
Style
Fan
Director
Monster
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I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer.
Bong Joon-Ho / Film Director
Film
Goal
Surprising
Express
Intentionally
Viewer
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There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.
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Society
Emotion
Film
Korean
Lot
Extreme
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The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession.
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Society
Borderline
Children
Mother
Obsession
Strong
Child
Almost
Her
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I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.'
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Masterpiece
Vengeance
English
Director
Japanese
Mine
Title
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I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine'.
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Directors
Titles
Vengeance
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The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.
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Conscious
Ideas
Scripts
Unconscious
Writing
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I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.
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Culture
Importance
Important
Mother
Mothers
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No matter where I am working, I cannot make a film without 100% creative control and final cut. If there is such a guarantee, I can work anywhere.
Bong Joon-Ho / Film Director
Creative
Cutting
Finals
Work Where I Am
Anywhere
Creative Control
Cut
Final
Final Cut
Guarantee
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The superhero is a really popular figure in the West. In Asia or Korea, the young viewers are amused by the figure, but it is not really so sensational.
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Amused
Asia
Sensational
Superhero
Viewers
Figure
Popular
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As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers.
Bong Joon-Ho / Film Director
Cannes
Cannes Film Festival
Directors
Distributors
Fans
Paradise
Worst
Festival
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When you first think of making a monster movie you have to realize that a lot of people may be down on you because there is a big prejudice against such films.
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Monsters
People
Prejudice
Thinking
Monster
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I really hate the creature film convention that says you have to wait until the end to see the monster. One hour and all you've seen is just the tip of the creature's tail.
Bong Joon-Ho / Film Director
Hate
Monsters
Waiting
Creature
Convention
Wait
Hour
Monster
Says
Tail
Tip
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Until the end of elementary school, I lived in a suburban area, so the type of village I used to live in is borderline between village and the city, so I'm familiar with the rustic environment.
Bong Joon-Ho / Film Director
Borderline
Elementary School
Environment
Familiar
Rustic
Type
Village
Area
Village City Live
Elementary
Suburban
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My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, it sums up to a certain genre. So at times even I have to try to guess which genre a film will be after I've made it.
Bong Joon-Ho / Film Director
Certain
Character
Favourite
Film
Genre
Lying
Made
Stories
Trying
Inside
After
Try
Characters
Times
Even
Follow
Guess
Images
Lies
Sums
Which
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I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge to make audiences thrill with the excitement of a genre, but I also try to betray and destroy the expectations placed on that genre.
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Betray
Excitement
Expectations
Feelings
Genre
Hate
Thrill
Love Time Hate
Also
Try
Audiences
Same
Complex
Destroy
Feeling
Placed
Same Time
Urge
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People have said, 'Why don't you make your own company like Chan-wook Park has his own company,' but my head is full of writing and directing and I don't feel like I want to run a company. That's not really within my personality as well.
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Running
People
Writing
Directing
Park
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I think when one becomes very close to another person, it can mean loving and intimacy, but on the other hand, there's also the danger of one destructing another under the name of love. I think that is the scariest thing for me in various relationships.
Bong Joon-Ho / Film Director
Danger
Hands
Intimacy
Mean
Thinking
Love Me Person
Love Me Name
Becomes
Close
Hand
Relationships
Scariest
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In the grand scheme of nature, I believe that it is very natural that animals eat animals, and that humans eat animals. It is only in the last couple of decades that meat-processing factories have come to rise, and I believe we should take time to reflect on that reality.
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Animal
Believe
Couple
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I have a group of cafes and coffee shops that I go to regularly. They usually have an area where I can plug in my computer and have a corner seat where I can do a couple hours of writing or whatever, even the noise of the surrounding people walking by. Those things are the things that stimulate me into writing.
Bong Joon-Ho / Film Director
Coffee
Computer
Couple
Hours
Noise
Shops
Walking
Writing
Me People I Can
Area
Me People Walking
Seat
Coffee Shops
Corner
Even
Whatever
Me Coffee People
Group
Plug
Regularly
Stimulate
Surrounding
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