Park Chan-wook Quotes

When morning comes, you would better find yourself saying: 'I have so many choices of what to do or what to leave - every morning, every day. I better judge for myself, and - go ahead and do it.'

I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.

If it looks like fun, and it looks like quality, then I'll do it. I don't feel compelled to work - or not to work.

If adults are not enjoying something they're doing in their leisure time, they should stop doing it.

You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

I don't do anything I don't want to do. There are so many opportunities that come my way, but if there's something out there that I don't want to do, I truly don't do it, because I have to maximize my time. If there's truly an opportunity to be quiet and be by myself, I do it.

I just think of everything I do and how happy it will make me to do it. I don't like having my photograph taken, for instance, so I don't do that often.

We can't control whether we are rewarded for our endeavours, with cash or recognition. It is not up to us how much cash or time we get on Earth, but it is down to us how we spend it.

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.

The way I choose to live my own life rates time and space as real luxuries.

A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

As with most things in my life, I believe you should try to enjoy yourself and never feel like you are a slave to a routine.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

If you're not enjoying yourself, you can't really look as if you are.

The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn't. If I choose to spend time playing video games or sleeping in, then it's time well spent, because I chose to do it. I did it for a reason - to relax, to decompress or to feel good, and that was what I wanted to do.

Most important, don't do anything you don't want.

All I have to do is what's right for me.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don't want to be.

They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.