Lee Je-hoon

“In 'Move to Heaven,' my character tries to listen and find out stories about the deceased and convey them to their families.”

“The characters I like offer a room for imagination about their untold past and future, even when the given scripts don't explain enough about them.”

“To be honest, it's true that revenge breeds more revenge, so the Rainbow Taxi crew had to think hard about what to do and how to resolve it.”

“I hope viewers see me as an actor who always strives to try new characters and reinvent myself.”

“I'm interested in characters that make me curious.”

“Bleak Night' presented my first lead role in a long feature.”

“I just felt good working with peer actors around my age.”

“You can have everything and yet if you have no one by your side, you would be the loneliest person ever.”

“I would like to have a filmography of the late Lee Je-hoon' list on Netflix or to have a DVD collection of my works. It would be a great honor.”

“Lee Chang-dong, Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon-ho. I think the three filmmakers tell the stories that they really want to tell. Their movies always reveal what they think must be told. I have a lot of respect for that.”

“Before, I wished my acting and my identity to be strictly separated. I felt uncomfortable about showing who I am because I was afraid it would affect how audiences see my performance. But now my thoughts have changed. I think people these days accept that actors and the roles they play are separate.”

“Looking back at how I have been selecting my characters, I tried to choose movies with social messages or ones with a unique genre.”

“It would be meaningful if 'Taxi Driver' were to reinterpret cases that were unresolved in the past. A 16-episode miniseries was too short to contain all the stories that we could have told.”

“But we all have experiences of having a truly good time after watching a movie that is not thought-provoking, don't we? I do too and I've been wishing to do that kind of movie. I think 'Collectors' is exactly that.”

“I hope many people can indulge themselves in the power of audio cinema.”

“I started acting imagining how happy I would be if I could be on screen one day. I think I act because I love doing it.”

“It is essential to understand your fellow actors in order to naturally fit in with them.”

“Director Lee Chang-dong's 1997 noir 'Green Fish.' I was attending middle school when I first watched the piece. And although I could not completely understand the film and where it was getting at, I still found it extremely powerful.”

“For the scene where I had to taste dirt, I was ready to do it for real. But our amazing art team said it would hurt my teeth and created fake dirt out of chocolate on ice cream Pig Bar.'”

“Personally, I would really like the entire production staff of Taxi Driver,' and all the characters including prosecutor Kang Ha Na, to come back together and continue the stories of Rainbow Taxi.”