Park Chan-wook Quotes

Movies are an editor's medium.

I hope this doesn't sound pretentious, but I very often like the way Europeans make movies. I think sometimes that don't they care about having to clean certain things.

You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film... at least in Hollywood studio films.

When I have been told that my films remind people of Ozu, I have never been too convinced.

In all my films, I have tried a different look.

I think of myself as a cultural filmmaker.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.

Many people who have watched 'Pieta' have said my filmmaking has become more objective.

My father's films are often very slow for the modern audiences, which are used to a lot of editing. It's the audience that watches the film instead of the director dictating the reaction he wants from you.

Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.

I love working with Scorsese. He's not only a brilliant director and is great working with actors, but he's also a walking human film encyclopedia. It's fun to talk about movies with him.

My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.

There are lots of great movies coming out of the U.S. but it's not something I've ever really been interested in. They're great films but I much prefer the smaller independent films, which are more thought provoking and experimental.

Experimental film by the '70s had become much more mainstream after 'Bonnie and Clyde' and stuff in the late '60s, when you were seeing bigger movies where people were exploring the medium a lot more.

I really wanted to write the way Kubrick makes films - 'Strangelove,' '2001', 'Clockwork Orange', 'Barry Lyndon' - they're all so different.

Agnes Varda changed my view of cinema; she directs from an artistic point of view, and a film is most of all the expression of an artistic director. I learnt to enter the world and the imagination of a director.

Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.

I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.

I don't approach films purely in context of genre.

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

Martin Scorsese is one of the great filmmakers of all time.

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there.