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

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.

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

I think when one becomes very close to another person, it can mean loving and intimacy, but on the other hand, there's also the danger of one destructing another under the name of love. I think that is the scariest thing for me in various relationships.

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

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