Ji Woon Quotes & Sayings

My background is in acting, so I enjoy being able to show what I'm looking for. With acting, it's very immediate when you show someone what you're looking for, and the feedback is instantaneous as well. — Kim Ji-woon

I know what's required. It's perfectly simple: Justice. — Alan Bennett

The life of Jesus recapitulates key elements in the earlier story of Israel. For a moment, as Jesus stands on the mountain giving the famous sermon, he is Moses. For a moment, answering his critics about his actions on the sabbath, he is David. For a moment, as he calls and names the twelve disciples, he is perhaps Jacob, bringing the twelve patriarchs into the world. For a moment, healing the sick and raising the dead, he is Elijah or Elisha. And so on. In the transfiguration he actually meets Moses and Elijah. — N. T. Wright

I want to do science fiction with dark stories. — Kim Ji-woon

I've been thinking of doing a sci-fi thriller or a sci-fi noir, if that's possible. — Kim Ji-woon

I want to work with a wide range of genres because it gives each film a different cinematic energy. — Kim Ji-woon

Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking. — Kim Ji-woon

Korean films have always been distributed to international audiences as arthouse films. — Kim Ji-woon

I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio. — Joe Shuster

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 Ji-woon

We all desire things that we believe we cannot have, and so my films reflect that again and again. The mystery must be solved, the goal attained. — Kim Ji-woon

I just want to bring as much natural as I can. I'm not saying that people who take acting lessons are false. They're much better than I am, but it doesn't work for me. — Betty White

You and I are the players, God's our head coach, and we're all playing the biggest game of all. — Joe Gibbs

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. — Kim Ji-woon

Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me. — Kim Ji-woon

It's the people who almost decide to live in glass houses who throw the first stones. — Carol Tavris

Whatever it is that I thirst for in my current project tends to turn up in my following project. — Kim Ji-woon

In life journey it is better to be a supporting pillar than a destroying carterpillar. — Ikechukwu Joseph

Between women love is contemplation; caresses are meant less to appropriate the other than to recreate oneself slowly through her; separation is eliminated, there is neither fight nor victory nor defeat; each one is both subject and object — Simone De Beauvoir

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 Ji-woon