A biography for Park Chan-wookhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.”
“When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring process, I wouldn't ever dream of it.”
“I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?”
“In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.”
“A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.”
“A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.”
“The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.”
“I don't think I've ever tried to make something happen that I've absolutely had to force. You know how they say: if you can't avoid it, enjoy it. For me, it's the other way around: if I can't enjoy it, I avoid it.”
“Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.”
“People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.”
“When I say that I am going to do an American film, I didn't want to suddenly go off into a completely different world that which bears no relation to the style of filmmaking that I'm used to.”
“I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.”