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.
Interpretation
Creative control is essential for artistic expression and satisfaction.
Bong Joon-Ho emphasizes that the ability to maintain complete creative control and have the final say over his films is crucial to his work as a filmmaker. This insistence highlights the importance of artistic autonomy, suggesting that true creativity can only flourish when an artist is free to make their own decisions without external interference.
In practice
In a discussion about filmmaking, one might say, 'As Bong Joon-Ho states, one cannot make a film without 100% creative control.'
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.
There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.
A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them.
The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.
I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.
After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.
I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.
You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings.
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