29 Quotes by Bong Joon-ho

I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.

I regard remaking a film as creating something again.

I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.

In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas.

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.

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 genre, but I also try to betray and destroy the expectations placed on that genre.

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 where I can do a couple hours of writing or whatever, even the noise of the surrounding people walking by. Those things are the things that stimulate me into writing.

The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession.

When I was a kid, I was always watching genre movies on TV.