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I want to do science fiction with dark stories. Kim Jee-woon

Science Dark Science Fiction Want Fiction Stories

In Korea, the director is on top, and the power flows down vertically. On the set, I love to come up with ideas on the spot. But in Hollywood, if I were to come up with a certain idea on set, the idea had to be taken to all these different people who had to agree. Kim Jee-woon

Love Director People Power Down Top Had Taken Idea Come Ideas Spot Korea Were Up Vertically Different Hollywood Certain Different People Who Agree Set Flows

America is a country that, even with all its flaws, has been able to flourish because there is a certain ideology about fighting for what you believe in. What you choose to believe in - no matter how small or big it is - is what you believe in, and that ideology has made America. Kim Jee-woon

After my film 'The Tale of Two Sisters,' I received a lot of offers from Hollywood to direct, but because 'A Tale of Two Sisters' was a horror film, I received a lot of horror films. But I wasn't interested in working in the same genre, and the scripts I received for films in different genres were for projects that were near completion. Kim Jee-woon

Films Projects Completion Direct Horror Horror Film Horror Films Tale Genre Genres Because Were Lot Offers Sisters Same Different After Interested Scripts Different Genres Hollywood Working Film Near Received Two

The Western is as American as a film can get - there's the discovery of a frontier, the element of a showdown, revenge, and determining the best gunman. There's a certain masculinity to the Western that really appealed to me, and I've always wanted to do a Western in Hollywood. Kim Jee-woon

Best Me Revenge Determining Masculinity Always Discovery Western Get American Frontier Wanted Hollywood Really Certain Appealed Element Film

I work from opposites to opposites, in a way. It's finding one thing and then doing the other from film to film. So maybe after 'I Saw the Devil,' I might do something like 'I Saw the Angel' or perhaps something warm and happy. Kim Jee-woon

Lionsgate and Lorenzo di Bonaventura saw my Korean Western-style film, 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird,' and probably felt that I would be right for 'The Last Stand,' which could be classified as a modern Western. Kim Jee-woon

Good Saw Bad Would Would-Be Classified Could Weird Felt Korean Western Modern Which Stand Film Right Last

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. Kim Jee-woon

Time Myself Style Thinking Films Kim Allow Never Make Sure Am Undoubtedly Decisions Even Film Right Here

Actors are the flowers of the film, of the set, and of the director. The term 'Flowers of the Screen' holds a deep meaning. Kim Jee-woon

Director Term Screen Holds Meaning Deep Film Actor Flowers Set

I don't have the ability to find a middle ground with my audiences, and I know this too well. Kim Ki-duk

Too Find Ability Know Well Audiences Middle Middle Ground Ground

Many people who have watched 'Pieta' have said my filmmaking has become more objective. Kim Ki-duk

People Become Objective More Said Who Many Watched Filmmaking

I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite. Kim Ki-duk

World Try Single Rather Opposite Meaning Interpret Things

Yes I did study to be a preacher, but I didn't finish. Kim Ki-duk

Finish Study Preacher Yes Did

I don't have high standards in taste; I prefer soju over wine. Kim Woo-bin

Wine High High Standards Over Taste Prefer Standards

There is a big dining table at In Sung hyung's house. That's our hangout spot, and we drink teas and chat. Kim Woo-bin

Big Our Dining Sung Table Drink Chat House Spot

Love always comes up to my mind when I think about my parents. Kim Woo-bin

Love Mind Parents Think About Always Up Love Always

I started studying acting to become a better model. But, in the course of doing so, I found myself feeling the same thrill and enthusiasm that I felt the first time I came to walk on the runway. Kim Woo-bin

Outwardly, it might seem that I like to go out a lot, but I like quiet days at home more. Kim Woo-bin

Home Out Seem More Days Like Go Lot Quiet Might

I said I wanted to be a model when I was in middle school. Everyone close to me raised doubts except for my parents. My parents trusted me and gave me full support. Kim Woo-bin

Me School Parents Gave Everyone Except Support Said Trusted Close Model Middle Wanted Middle School Doubts Full Raised

Before I started my modeling career at 20, I used to replay fashion show videos on-line and study how famous models walk and pose on runways. Kim Woo-bin

Fashion Walk Videos Before On-Line Study How Replay Modeling Models Famous Used Show Fashion Show Started Career Pose

Handwritten political posters - often composed in an artless and unadorned style, usually just words on plain white paper - were ubiquitous in South Korea in the 1970s and 1980s and were one of the few outlets available for expressing political views. Most posters were anonymous and put up under the cover of night. Kim Young-ha

Words Political Style Few White Paper Composed Posters Outlets Put Most Anonymous Korea Cover Were South Up South Korea Political Views Often Just Available Plain Views Expressing Night

In the early 2000s, people expected that anonymity on the Internet would be positive for the development of democracy in South Korea. In a Confucian culture like South Korea's, hierarchy can block the free exchange of opinions in face-to-face situations. The web offered a way around that. Kim Young-ha

Positive Democracy Culture People Internet Free Way Hierarchy Would Would-Be Face-To-Face Web Exchange Development Like Anonymity Around Opinions Korea Block South South Korea Offered Expected Situations Early

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