Park Chan-wook quote: "I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch."

I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to tur...
PARK CHAN-WOOK

I hate jeans for no reason.
PARK CHAN-WOOK

There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.
PARK CHAN-WOOK

I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score wo...
PARK CHAN-WOOK

When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very...
PARK CHAN-WOOK

As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world i...
PARK CHAN-WOOK

If I want to relax and not do anything, I don't want to leave home.
PARK CHAN-WOOK

I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life ve...
PARK CHAN-WOOK

I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a poi...
PARK CHAN-WOOK

In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.
PARK CHAN-WOOK

When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must...
PARK CHAN-WOOK

Actors, I think, are all the same. Both Korean actors and American actors are all very sensitive peo...
PARK CHAN-WOOK

Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.
PARK CHAN-WOOK

Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still creat...
PARK CHAN-WOOK

Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're se...
PARK CHAN-WOOK

Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
PARK CHAN-WOOK

If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination li...
PARK CHAN-WOOK

When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, an...
PARK CHAN-WOOK

A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful w...
PARK CHAN-WOOK

I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
PARK CHAN-WOOK

When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.
PARK CHAN-WOOK

All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they ar...
PARK CHAN-WOOK

The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.
PARK CHAN-WOOK

When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if yo...
PARK CHAN-WOOK

The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.
PARK CHAN-WOOK

I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
PARK CHAN-WOOK

When I say that I am going to do an American film, I didn't want to suddenly go off into a compl...
PARK CHAN-WOOK

I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That&#...
PARK CHAN-WOOK

I do like musical films more than big Hollywood films, especially those by Jacques Demi and Vincent ...
PARK CHAN-WOOK

When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean ...
PARK CHAN-WOOK

If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and ...
PARK CHAN-WOOK

I live in a rural residential area. It's a great place for a walk. I'm at my happiest when I...
PARK CHAN-WOOK

I was trying to refresh myself. Today against Kansas City I was concentrating on my pace, not to get...
CHAN HO PARK

It was too bad he couldn't go longer than five innings. But he did a good job, but the manager wante...
CHAN HO PARK

Everyone was concentrating so hard. That [concentration] allowed him to make that play.
CHAN HO PARK

Our goal was to get the win. This was an important win for us. I didn't expect to go three innings b...
CHAN HO PARK

If Japan considers us a rival, as members of the Korean team, that means we are a strong team. We wi...
CHAN HO PARK

I remember the fans ... But I don't remember how I felt, because I was so excited.
CHAN HO PARK

Now I'm against the Dodgers, but I feel nothing different because I'm going to face new guys, not fo...
CHAN HO PARK

I guess it's good. An outing like today makes me more comfortable on the mound.
CHAN HO PARK

We didn't just play a baseball game, we brought together many Koreans. Each player is trying to win ...
CHAN HO PARK

I was kind of surprised, even over 70-80 pitches, still I felt good. I gave up hits on the off speed...
CHAN HO PARK

I had hard times, but I didn't give up. The injury got better, and the pitching and focus got better...
CHAN HO PARK

A couple of hits cost three or four runs and that hurts. It was my first outing in 10 days facing hi...
CHAN HO PARK

I could throw fastballs. That's the reason I could become a major leaguer. But the reason I did well...
CHAN HO PARK

This year, I feel strong. I'm looking forward to having my best season in the last few years.
CHAN HO PARK

We have a good team, and I think we'll have a good season this year.
CHAN HO PARK

This is normal, to have pressure. It's how you respond. Take the pressure, use the pressure, hav...
CHAN HO PARK

My main problem has been staying healthy.
CHAN HO PARK

Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love L...
RANDALL PARK

'Veep' is definitely one of my favorite TV shows, and not because I'm in it. It's ju...
RANDALL PARK

I'm on Twitter, but I'm not super active. I follow a lot of the same people that a lot of pe...
RANDALL PARK

The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it...
RANDALL PARK

My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds o...
RANDALL PARK

I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stu...
RANDALL PARK

My parents were born in Korea. They spent a good part of their life in Korea.
RANDALL PARK

I've been reading a lot about North Korea ever since I got the part in 'The Interview' b...
RANDALL PARK

I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
RANDALL PARK

As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a...
RANDALL PARK

I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do ...
RANDALL PARK

I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.
RANDALL PARK

I think I'm really good at forgetting about golf when I'm off the golf course.
INBEE PARK

The first win came very quick, and I didn't know what it meant to win a major championship. I wa...
INBEE PARK

I experienced American golf courses when I was younger and played a lot of USGA and AJGA tournaments...
INBEE PARK

I just love playing in major championships.
INBEE PARK

I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
INBEE PARK

There are calm Korean players and not calm. There are calm Western players.
INBEE PARK

I have a mental coach in Korea, and I talk to her every week before the tournament, during the tourn...
INBEE PARK

Wanting more majors, wanting more wins, almost feels like I think I'm being too greedy.
INBEE PARK

Sometimes, all the interviews, those are the toughest thing for me, but once you really start to do ...
INBEE PARK

When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.
INBEE PARK

Outside the golf course, I feel the pressure, and I feel what everybody else is feeling. But on the ...
INBEE PARK

Talking to my mental coach definitely helps. I talk to her every week. Yeah, I mean, she's been ...
INBEE PARK

I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'l...
INBEE PARK

As a person, to inspire some young girls and give them something to look at and give them something ...
INBEE PARK

This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that'...
INBEE PARK

I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course. And I feel calm when I'm on the golf course...
INBEE PARK

Whenever I'd go to restaurants, the main chef came out and was cooking for me, and he's aski...
INBEE PARK

The martial arts that I got into was because of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, because of all of the ani...
RAY PARK

I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a c...
BARBARA PARK

My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that ...
BARBARA PARK

My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how de...
BARBARA PARK

I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
BARBARA PARK

My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to...
BARBARA PARK

I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
BARBARA PARK

Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
BARBARA PARK

Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is...
BARBARA PARK

Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
BARBARA PARK

I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. ...
BARBARA PARK

I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - fr...
BARBARA PARK

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
BARBARA PARK

There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
BARBARA PARK

I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I jus...
BARBARA PARK

I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my f...
BARBARA PARK

For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.
BARBARA PARK

All of my characters are less than perfect.
BARBARA PARK

There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of...
BARBARA PARK

We eat. We sleep. We keep going.
JESSICA PARK

Beauty and grace command the world.
PARK BENJAMIN

...your mom calls you up every other day to beg you to get a real job so she can hold her head up a...
JOYCE PARK

I take a lean-startup approach: creating agile, interdisciplinary teams that get the minimum viable ...
TODD PARK

How do you deliver the best possible and affordable health care to maximize health?
TODD PARK

Today's advanced STEM graduate could be tomorrow's world-class, world-changing scientist.
TODD PARK

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the...
NICK PARK

It's very hard to adapt something. You end up changing it too much to make a good movie out of i...
NICK PARK

He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one...
RUTH PARK

It's a bold statement. The color (orange) is bold. You've got to be more than the words on the sign.
ANDREA PARK

It's a privilege to be asked to serve people. We've been in the community 80 years, and we're here t...
ANDREA PARK

We're never getting enough funding, never. You can never get enough money.
ANDREA PARK

I would probably say we served well over 4,000 families last year.
ANDREA PARK

Not telling them what to think. They can think very well on their own.
ANDREA PARK

It is an honor to go to the same school as him.
ANDREW PARK

It is great that I can go to a place where I can walk on the same ground of somebody that defended o...
ANDREW PARK

[The last time they saw each other face-to-face was June, before Evans left for Iraq. One of the las...
ANDREW PARK

We don't really worry about being called a religious ensemble,
ANDREW PARK

Bread and Puppet Theater got their start protesting the Vietnam War and have ever since been perform...
ANDREW PARK

I never wanted fame, of all things, and I'm not just being cheeky. There are benefits that come ...
GRACE PARK

Stupid kissing. Stupid roaming hands. Stupid boys.
JESSICA PARK

Supported by digital data, new data-driven tools, and payment policies that reward improving the qua...
TODD PARK

Growing up as a kid, I wanted to be a ninja. In martial arts, even though I did Chinese kung fu, I a...
RAY PARK

When I was a teenager, my dad watched my films and told me I could go to art college and study anima...
NICK PARK

I love doing features, but it's a very different ballgame. Sometimes I yearn for short films aga...
NICK PARK

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and comp...
NICK PARK

How sweet to move at summer's eve By Clyde's meandering stream, When Sol in joy is seen to lea...
ANDREW PARK

It's easier to run
Replacing this pain with something numb
It's so much easier to go
...
LINKIN PARK

When I played Darth Maul, it sort of came from inside. I'm not saying it was natural, but I real...
RAY PARK

I've said that I would play anything to do with 'Star Wars.' But really, deep down, I wo...
RAY PARK

I think it's no coincidence that people who are good at writing far-out fiction are also good at...
PAUL PARK

Entrepreneurs and innovators across the country are developing and deploying new data-powered IT too...
TODD PARK

When I was in the private sector, one characteristic that differentiated the best entrepreneurs from...
TODD PARK

Not only is it possible to do lean startup in federal government, but it's the most effective wa...
TODD PARK

Nigh to a grave that was newly made, Leaned a sexton old on his earth-worn spade.
PARK BENJAMIN

Flowers are Love's truest language; they betray, Like the divining rods of Magi old, Where pre...
PARK BENJAMIN

There's going to have to be a retrial. This was clearly at some level important testimony. The safes...
TAI PARK

I never, ever, ever write with a red pen -- red signifies losses, ... I also keep my desk completely...
JAMES PARK

Habitat for Humanity International has launched a three-phase recovery program called Operation Home...
CHARLIE PARK

There are things that have gone -- sets and props from The Wrong Trousers.
NICK PARK

The best films come about through experimentation.
NICK PARK

There's an inordinate amount of attention put on actors. Some people want to make their lives pu...
GRACE PARK

I was not too happy with the bogey but these things happen. It's only my third bogey of the week. I'...
DAVID PARK

I don't feel typecast almost at all, and it could just be because I'm insensitive, but I dou...
GRACE PARK

There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.
NICK PARK

Since the summer, Markko has been happier at the wheel of the 307 WRC and the engineers at Peugeot S...
MICHAEL PARK

I do like shiny pieces of metal.
NICK PARK

Before I got into acting, I was always interested in psychology, which I think is very common with a...
MEGAN PARK

We won't know the extent of the damage until after the crops are harvested.
JOHN PARK

Production, exports and consumption clearly began to perk up since November last year.
PARK SEUNG

Our job as leaders is to find those innovators and release their mojo - lean startup-style - to serv...
TODD PARK

I basically apply with my teams the lean startup principles I used in the private sector - go into S...
TODD PARK

My gun trainer on the first 'G.I. Joe' gave me about a week of commando training, so I got t...
RAY PARK

In the beginning, the only benefit it really had was the right to upgrade. But since [Microsoft] has...
ALVIN PARK

Microsoft is making Windows Enterprise an entitlement of Software Assurance, and before you could bu...
ALVIN PARK

It will force other vendor to rethink their licensing strategies and over time will cause them to ma...
ALVIN PARK

We actually provided a clay bunny, and he was scanned into a computer, fingerprints and all. And the...
NICK PARK

I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to ...
NICK PARK

As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short project...
NICK PARK

We were confident from the outset that this terrific collection would produce phenomenal results at ...
DAVID PARK

I wanted to keep my signature in it and not lose that.
NICK PARK

Wallace and Gromit's contraptions are created purely for gags, but we all have the urge to inven...
NICK PARK

After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Fil...
NICK PARK

We know there is real interest from the American public in having easy access to the new, affordable...
TODD PARK

This is not the first such patent to be granted, but it shows that patent examiners are being duped ...
ROBERT PARK

He was concerned about how the British accents would translate, and sometimes we rerecorded lines to...
NICK PARK

I kept telling myself it's never too late to start playing well. I'm glad I'm turning it around.
GRACE PARK

The cab driver must have been a big fan.
NICK PARK

I'm feeling good, ... For the last month or so I've been working very hard. I kept telling myself it...
GRACE PARK

People who eat high fiber tend to have a healthier lifestyle and a more healthy diet. Those things t...
YIKYUNG PARK

With all the rain we had overnight, the greens were definitely softer, slower. But still rolling ver...
GRACE PARK

I always considered Ray Harryhausen's work so fine that it was way out of my league: in terms of...
NICK PARK

I thought you could build a story that would function as a machine or else a complex of machines, ea...
PAUL PARK

I had the idea for this [The Curse of the Were-Rabbit] before Chicken Run,
NICK PARK

Even those who never frown eventually break down.
LINKIN' PARK

Normal people can become very annoying if put in annoying situations.
JESSICA PARK

There's a position for everyone. It's a very dynamic sport. There's a misconception that rugby is a ...
DOUG PARK

I could not feel, smell, see, hear, or taste the world around me. If I had allowed myself to experie...
YEONMI PARK

Where is Martha Stewart going to go?
TAI PARK

At some point in time, Webster Habitat may get involved with the House in a Box program. But for rig...
CHARLIE PARK

It's still important to eat a high-fiber diet. Even though our study didn't find a reduction for col...
YIKYUNG PARK

Happy New Year, Julie.”
“Happy New Year, Matty.” She turned off the television and rolled...
JESSICA PARK

I don't know what it is about me that gets cast in specific roles. Some people would say, 'Y...
GRACE PARK

At least I'm not a font nerd."
"A what?"
Matt smiled. "You know. People who love fonts. Th...
JESSICA PARK

She hit it from the side over into the corner. I don't know how she got it in.
CHARLIE PARK

I'm done peeing now."
"Thank you for letting me know.
JESSICA PARK

Chamara. What is the word that comes closest to it? Soo-Ja wondered. To stand it, to bear it, to gri...
SAMUEL PARK

Why is luge a sport? You dress up like a giant sperm and go sledding really fast. That’s hardly at...
JESSICA PARK

I’ve read countless literary works that detail the longing and ache that characters have for someo...
JESSICA PARK

We actually provided a clay bunny, and he was scanned into a computer, fingerprints and all, ... And...
NICK PARK

You need to be feel beautiful on your own before a guy can make you feel beautiful, because it wont ...
MEGAN PARK

I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.
NICK PARK

Some of our most productive players are our smaller players. Our more skilled players are our smalle...
DOUG PARK

We will continue to work with agencies across the government to unleash the power of open data and t...
TODD PARK

Geeks are a critical driver of America's innovation ecosystem, from the entrepreneurs launching ...
TODD PARK

It adds some history to a campus and kind of ties together some of the various generations that have...
DON PARK

I've seen nothing come forward on it.
DON PARK

We've never had to deal with that, which is a good thing.
DON PARK

Those really get sticky, and we really approach those very carefully.
DON PARK

The more support that comes in with one of them, the better opportunity they might be approved.
DON PARK

They can name whatever they want, whatever they want.
DON PARK

The university has had to find other creative ways of providing money.
DON PARK

It kind of gives a character to the campus.
DON PARK

I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.

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I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.

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