Kim Jee-woon Quotes

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different element of that storytelling process.

Filmmaking, whatever the window dressing or the scale of a film may be, is eventually about telling a story.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is all about telling stories, and I'm just doing my part.

At the core, I'm a filmmaker and a storyteller.

Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, number three is story. Good actors can save a bad script and make it bearable, but good actors can't make a bad script good - they can just make it bearable.

No other aspect of filmmaking has tempted me to do a film other than the script and the story itself.

I am interested in people. I'm interested in telling stories, whether that is behind the camera or in front of the camera.

Moviemaking is about telling a story. And you need to know what story you are going to tell.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

I am not at all interested in theories about cinema. I am only interested in images and people and sound. I am really a very simple person.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from, and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.

He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable. I learned so much.

I want to work with anyone who's passionate about telling a story. I obviously have a list of people I really love, but it's a really long list.

You can have a bunch of great actors in a film, but if you don't have anyone telling a great story, it's a moot point.

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.