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28 quotes by Bong Joon-ho

Bong Joon-ho (Hangul: 봉준호; born September 14, 1969) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. His films include South Korean hits Memories of Murder (2003), based on a true-life serial murder case, monster movie The Host (2006), and his first English-language film, science fiction adventure Snowpiercer (2013). Korean film industry insiders have nicknamed him "Bong Tae-il," which, pronounced in Korean, sounds similar to the word "detail"....
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I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.'

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No matter where I am working, I cannot make a film without 100% creative control and final cut. If there is such a guarantee, I can work anywhere.

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I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge to make audiences thrill with the excitement of a... →

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I have a group of cafes and coffee shops that I go to regularly. They usually have an area where I can plug in my computer and have a corner seat... →

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Until the end of elementary school, I lived in a suburban area, so the type of village I used to live in is borderline between village and the city... →

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I always write the script by myself.

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I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer.

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I really love 'The Thing.'

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I think each film should be regarded as its own specific text.

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In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded.

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The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.

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There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.

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There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.

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