Kim Jee-woon Quotes

When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.

Personally, I don't give a toss about French viewers. I make films for foreigners - it's a bit like Ken Loach, who's not very popular in England but has had a lot of success in France. Cinema is always an experience in a foreign body.

I want to make films that cater to the world audiences.

I do films because there is an audience out there. It doesn't matter if they're Indian, American, or European.

I don't set out to make a film for festivals abroad.

Hollywood... that's not going to be my niche at all. If anyone is going wants to work with me, I would think it's going to be independent films. I'm not 22!

Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.

Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to see people singing along while I performed in Pune.

I think it's important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world.

I have seen dozens upon dozens of productions of 'Lebensraum' in dozens of languages around the globe.

'Five Easy Pieces,' 'Easy Rider' - those are indie pictures; those were not studio pictures. They had relationships with studio distribution, but they were indies.

When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortunately, the audiences of foreign language films have not been cultivated. There's a market, but the market has been reduced, unfortunately, and you know that when you're making a foreign language film, you're making a choice.

It's funny because I remember when I came to the U.S. with 'Swimming Pool,' the movie did well, and it was great box office for a French movie, but I remember I was a bit upset because all people talked to me about was the nudity.

I'm no longer interested in being in big commercial films.

In Mexico, there are good filmmakers, but they didn't always have the opportunity to show their work. But since 'Amores Perros,' many of these filmmakers had the opportunity to show their films, and they have a newfound energy for cinema.

I would love to do anything from a really gritty, interesting, indie type film, to that commercial, bigger stuff.

Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is.

I'm so used to Australian films not getting a release outside Australia.

I want to make films with a broad scope; produced in Italy but looking at the world.

I did Tamil film, 'Mehandi Circus.' I want to do Bangla cinema and other regional and foreign languages.

I have always thought of films as stories for the world.

It's really hard to get fans in another country, especially here, because America is so, so big, so it's really hard to get known in this country.

I am a citizen of the planet and I want to do films that appeal to people, not communities.

I grew up in England, and at the time, cinema was very heavy arthouse cinema, and there was no one making movies that were designed to be in multiplexes.

I want to shoot some indies, some independent features that give me some space to play a little bit.