After my film ‘The Tale of Two Sisters,’ I received a lot of offers from Hollywood to direct, but because ‘A Tale of Two Sisters’ was a horror film, I received a lot of horror films. But I wasn’t interested in working in the same genre, and the scripts I received for films in different genres were for projects that were near completion. Kim Jee-woon Read Quote
America is a country that, even with all its flaws, has been able to flourish because there is a certain ideology about fighting for what you believe in. What you choose to believe in – no matter how small or big it is – is what you believe in, and that ideology has made America. Kim Jee-woon Read Quote
I’ve made the film ‘The Good, the Bad, the Weird,’ which was an Eastern Western film. Obviously, the Western film is American and American only; there’s really no Western genre over in Asia. Kim Jee-woon Read Quote
I’m someone who has a singular goal in making films: I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell. Hollywood’s never really been the ultimate goal for me. Kim Jee-woon Read Quote
In Korea, the director is on top, and the power flows down vertically. On the set, I love to come up with ideas on the spot. But in Hollywood, if I were to come up with a certain idea on set, the idea had to be taken to all these different people who had to agree. Kim Jee-woon Read Quote
I’m not an outgoing person. Compared to an average person, I am quite skeptical and pessimistic. This is different from being nervous. Kim Jee-woon Read Quote
What can possibly be the common factor in a Kim Jee-woon film? I think what really ties a lot of my projects together is that there is always a character that believes his life is not exactly the way he wishes it to be. Kim Jee-woon Read Quote
I’ve been thinking of doing a sci-fi thriller or a sci-fi noir, if that’s possible. Kim Jee-woon Read Quote
Whatever it is that I thirst for in my current project tends to turn up in my following project. Kim Jee-woon Read Quote
A lot of people are very interested that a Korean director has made a western. But when I look at the reactions of the audience, I realise the points at which people laugh are the same for a Korean audience and an international audience. Kim Jee-woon Read Quote
