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As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers.

Bong Joon-ho

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.
BONG JOON-HO

Hate Monster Waiting
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.
BONG JOON-HO

Animal Believe The Couple
I regard remaking a film as creating something again.
BONG JOON-HO

Creating Film Regard Something
I’m sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.
BONG JOON-HO

Culture Important Mother
I like to draw my storyboards myself.
BONG JOON-HO

Draws Myself Storyboard
I don’t write any kind of sequel or remake.
BONG JOON-HO

Kind Remakes Writing
The mother’s love for her child is very strong in Korean society – almost on the borderline of being an obsession.
BONG JOON-HO

Children Mother Strong
The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.
BONG JOON-HO

Ideas Scripts Writing
My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, it sums up to a certain genre.
BONG JOON-HO

Character Lying Trying
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.
BONG JOON-HO

Hands Mean Thinking
As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers.
BONG JOON-HO

Cannes Directors Fans Film Festival
I don’t intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer.
BONG JOON-HO

Film Goal Surprising
I always write the script by myself.
BONG JOON-HO

Always Scripts Writing
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.
BONG JOON-HO

Expectations Feelings Hate

As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers.

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As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers.

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