A biography for Kim Jee-woonhasn’t been written yet.
“My background is in acting, so I enjoy being able to show what I'm looking for. With acting, it's very immediate when you show someone what you're looking for, and the feedback is instantaneous as well.”
“'The Good, the Bad, the Weird' is about individuals fulfilling their desires and just going the distance to fulfill that desire.”
“I never make films thinking 'This is my film. This right here is undoubtedly Kim Jee-Woon style.' I am not even sure what 'Kim Jee-Woon style' is. When I make films, I never allow myself to make hard-set decisions ahead of time.”
“I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films: I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell. Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.”
“One quality that a director needs to acquire in Hollywood is to understand the system and figure out how to work within the system to express one's own ideas.”
“Korean films have always been distributed to international audiences as arthouse films.”
“I want to do science fiction with dark stories.”
“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.”
“I've been thinking of doing a sci-fi thriller or a sci-fi noir, if that's possible.”