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In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.

Park Chan-wook

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Park Chan-wook
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 23
Film Critic
Film Director
Film Producer
Politician
Screenwriter
Seoul Teukbyeolsi
Chan-wook Park
Park Chan-uk
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Lives
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When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.
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I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.
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I do like musical films more than big Hollywood films, especially those by Jacques Demi and Vincent Minelli.
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I hate jeans for no reason.
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If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.
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Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts. So, working with this very intelligent, smart cast meant that sometimes I would only have to start speaking a word and these wonderful actors would immediately catch onto what I wanted them to portray, and how I wanted them to act.
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I did have a feminist side to me, just not in such a pronounced way.
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Some audiences might find homosexuality an uncomfortable subject matter, and a character who is a Japanese collaborator is always uncomfortable.
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I don't really believe in the auteur theory.
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The reason why I always wanted to make an American film was because of the Western genre. It is something that I would very much like to make in the future, because it's very uniquely American, and I can't make a Western film in Korean.
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I'd like to do a really masculine film.
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I feel myself becoming more mature and more fascinated and drawn to feminine values.
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You could say that evil is contagious in that we have this mesmerizing mentor in Uncle Charlie who comes into your life. Every person has a seed of evil inside them, and when you come across such a mesmerizing mentor, he is able to successfully turn it into a flower of evil.
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Ever since I arrived in America to promote Stoker, I haven't had time to go and see it in a theater. The fact that I had to shoot twice as fast as I'm used to in Korea was the most challenging thing about my Hollywood experience.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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I've read all of Sarah Waters's novels which have been translated into Korean.
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I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara,Coppola, Neil Jordan.
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