Choi Woo-shik Quotes

Any person that you would want to watch your movie or see your show or read your book, there's a million other things that they could be watching or reading or doing.

I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

There are so many books and movies I like; I never mention specific ones.

He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.

Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything.

The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.

I don't watch something just because it's a specific genre.

Each generation wants their own form of entertainment and their own form of storytelling.

No offense to real jobs, but comics seemed a lot more fun.

Every brilliant book I read is an influence and an inspiration. As is every brilliant movie I watch and every brilliant box set.

I've been obsessed with television since I was 7 years old, and I've always been writing on some level.

Who would you rather be with: someone with more alternatives or someone with fewer?

My aim is to do all genres, both entertainment and art.

I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view.

I think that's why I keep being drawn back to television, because I think it's one of the most creative outlets.

An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.

For me, what I am making in the novel is a place to live. When I first switched from poetry to novels, I was asked why, and the metaphor I came up with was about poems as rooms. You can make a room perfect, but then you have to shut the door and never go back, whereas a novel is like a house - it can never be perfect, but you can make a life in it.

Writing is a miracle. You can travel anywhere in the world, to any time and any place — and still be home in time to have dinner.

Storytelling is all about using the imagination, for me at least it is. That's why I'm bored sometimes to see movies. I'm bored to see TV. I never see TV. I see news sometimes. I'm sorry to say, I work in this business and I love working in it, but I haven't seen a movie in so many years.

I think a diversity of expression can only be good, so I think the more that people write about their experience, use their imagination to deal with their experience, you know, I think that's going to be good for not only for those authors but also for people who are interested in trying to understand it.

The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake. If it’s a real dream, you cannot control it. When writing the book, you are awake; you can choose the time, the length, everything. I write for four or five hours in the morning and when the time comes, I stop. I can continue the next day. If it’s a real dream, you can’t do that.

In literature, you know only what you imagine

I'm a lucky guy. I get to sit around every day and indulge in make believe and get paid for it.