Park Chan-wook Quotes

If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.

Lionsgate and Lorenzo di Bonaventura saw my Korean Western-style film, 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird,' and probably felt that I would be right for 'The Last Stand,' which could be classified as a modern Western.

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

'Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, from what I understand going in.

I never really did a western western.

I vividly remember Charles Bronson's face in 'Chino.' The western genre is screaming for a face like that.

I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.

I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley.

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.

It's a big problem for American movies that all their movies are produced to be global.

I've made the film 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird,' which was an Eastern Western film. Obviously, the Western film is American and American only; there's really no Western genre over in Asia.

The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.

I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.

Right before Mag Seven I did a movie called The Bull Rider.

I love westerns, I'd love to make more of them.

I'm a fan of the western genre. When I see a character actor, I see a whole movie behind a scene before and after. There's a whole other movie behind it.

I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.

I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors.

In general, we like to shoot Breaking Bad like a modern day Western, and Sergio Leone is one of my all-time favorite directors.

I watched westerns when I was a kid, like everybody else, but I wasn't a total nerd or geek about it. I kind of fell in love with westerns heavily when I started watching Sergio Leone's westerns.

I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.'

I wanted to explore Korean-American characters. And 'Columbus' did address that. The father-son dynamic felt very real to me.

I loved Westerns for different reasons as an adult. It is not only our only native brand of storytelling - the only one that's not influenced by Europeans and not something that's done better by the French - but I also love the sensuality of the Western. The sights, sounds, and smell of a Western are very exciting.

Sergio Leone has this weird western opera thing.

It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.