A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.
I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.
I don't think I've ever tried to make something happen that I've absolutely had to force. You know how they say: if you can't avoid it, enjoy it. For me, it's the other way around: if I can't enjoy it, I avoid it.
People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.
As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring process, I wouldn't ever dream of it.
When I say that I am going to do an American film, I didn't want to suddenly go off into a completely different world that which bears no relation to the style of filmmaking that I'm used to.
When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.
I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.
I do like musical films more than big Hollywood films, especially those by Jacques Demi and Vincent Minelli.
When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.