The treatments themselves do not 'cure' the condition, they simply restore the body's self-healing ability.
I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer.
I really hate the creature film convention that says you have to wait until the end to see the monster. One hour and all you've seen is just the tip of the creature's tail.
There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.
I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.
In the grand scheme of nature, I believe that it is very natural that animals eat animals, and that humans eat animals. It is only in the last couple of decades that meat-processing factories have come to rise, and I believe we should take time to reflect on that reality.
In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded.
A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.
I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.
I had at one point this rather depressing image of some alien culture seeing the death of this planet - coming down in their spaceships and sniffing around; finding all our skeletons sitting around our TV sets and trying to work out why our end came before its time and they come to the conclusion that we amused ourselves to death.
Planning is design. As a designer what I tend to do, and what's different from being a painter, is that I interact with other people, and the people have things they need to have happen.