People have said, 'Why don't you make your own company like Chan-wook Park has his own company,' but my head is full of writing and directing and I don't feel like I want to run a company. That's not really within my personality as well.

Bong Joon-ho

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

There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.

Bong Joon-ho

No matter where I am working, I cannot make a film without 100% creative control and final cut. If there is such a guarantee, I can work anywhere.

Bong Joon-ho

The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession.

Bong Joon-ho

My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, it sums up to a certain genre. So at times even I have to try to guess which genre a film will be after I've made it.

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

The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.

Bong Joon-ho

I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.'

Bong Joon-ho

I don't write any kind of sequel or remake.

Bong Joon-ho

I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer.

Bong Joon-ho

I have a group of cafes and coffee shops that I go to regularly. They usually have an area where I can plug in my computer and have a corner seat where I can do a couple hours of writing or whatever, even the noise of the surrounding people walking by. Those things are the things that stimulate me into writing.

Bong Joon-ho

People have said, 'Why don't you make your own company like Chan-wook Park has his own company,' but my head is full of writing and directing and I don't feel like I want to run a company. That's not really within my personality as well.

Bong Joon-ho

In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded.

Bong Joon-ho

In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas.

Bong Joon-ho

I think each film should be regarded as its own specific text.

Bong Joon-ho

When I was a kid, I was always watching genre movies on TV.

Bong Joon-ho

I regard remaking a film as creating something again.

Bong Joon-ho

I like to draw my storyboards myself.

Bong Joon-ho

Until the end of elementary school, I lived in a suburban area, so the type of village I used to live in is borderline between village and the city, so I'm familiar with the rustic environment.

Bong Joon-ho

I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.

Bong Joon-ho