Park Chan-wook Quotes

My favorite movies are gory horror films. I love Faulkner. I wanted to see the most painful things possible.

I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.'

There is so much bloodshed and action packed into our films these days. Pretty women provide the much-needed respite to the masses from the melee of non-stop action.

I really appreciate gory movies.

I've always been really terrible with horror films. I scare really easily and can't stand all the violence and gore.

There's been a lot of aesthetically rich horror films that have come out in the last several years. 'The Babadook' is this perfectly paced, beautiful film. 'The Witch' is a beautifully made film. 'Get Out' is so intelligently written. I feel like there's so many great things happening right now.

The Shining' is one of the few horror movies that I actually like and it actually scared me.

It's not terrifying to watch 'Mindhunter,' necessarily, but it's just unsettling. You can find Aileen Wuornos just talking to a camera. It's hard to watch. Her eyeballs, they are just terrifying.

As far as horror films are concerned, I guess Vikram Bhatt is a brand name.

I've always wanted to do a horror film. I don't know if my agent will be happy I said that when I get sent some crap horror films, but I'd like to do a good one, like 'It Follows,' or 'The Babadook.'

I enjoy doing action a lot more because my films have a sense of violence. That's because I have a broad structure, and if I hit someone, it looks believable. Maybe my contemporaries are meeker-looking in comparison.

I do like horror films, but I wouldn't ever be interested in putting a horror on stage - blood doesn't equal horror.

I don't like watching horror films. I actually don't. I don't watch horror films.

I think my favorite horror films are really grounded in human psychology, which is to say I think through sort of extreme dislocations of reality.

Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery.

When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

Like all bullies, they’re cowards underneath the swagger

He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.

How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!

A coward with a gun is the most dangerous person in the world

I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.

You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.

Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.

My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse.