There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.
Interpretation
Korean films reflect the intense emotions and societal extremes present in Korean culture.
Bong Joon-Ho suggests that the emotional depth found in Korean cinema is a direct result of the cultural and social extremes experienced within Korean society. This intertwining of art and life illustrates how filmmakers draw inspiration from their surroundings, allowing audiences to connect with the raw human experiences portrayed on screen.
In practice
In a film studies class while discussing the impact of culture on cinema.
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 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.
People have said, 'Why don't you make your own company like Chan-wook Park has his own company,' but my head is full of writing and directing and I don't feel like I want to run a company. That's not really within my personality as well.
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.
The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.
I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue.
I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.
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