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I want to do science fiction with dark stories.
Kim Jee-Woon / Film Director
Science Fiction
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Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.
Kim Jee-Woon / Film Director
Ultimate
Ultimate Goal
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I've been thinking of doing a sci-fi thriller or a sci-fi noir, if that's possible.
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Noir
Sci Fi
Thriller
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Korean films have always been distributed to international audiences as arthouse films.
Kim Jee-Woon / Film Director
International
Audiences
Distributed
Films
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Whatever it is that I thirst for in my current project tends to turn up in my following project.
Kim Jee-Woon / Film Director
Following
Thirst
Current
Tends
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I want to work with a wide range of genres because it gives each film a different cinematic energy.
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Cinematic
Range
Wide
Genres
Wide Range
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Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking.
Kim Jee-Woon / Film Director
Accustomed
Filmmaking
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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 Jee-Woon / Film Director
Singular
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Actors are the flowers of the film, of the set, and of the director. The term 'Flowers of the Screen' holds a deep meaning.
Kim Jee-Woon / Film Director
Term
Flowers
Holds
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'The Good, the Bad, the Weird' is about individuals fulfilling their desires and just going the distance to fulfill that desire.
Kim Jee-Woon / Film Director
Desire
Distance
Weird
Good Weird Bad
Fulfill
Individuals
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I think my tendency when working is to try and find what's lacking in my current project and then tackle that in whatever I do next.
Kim Jee-Woon / Film Director
Lacking
Current
Tackle
Tendency
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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 / Film Director
Average
Average Person
Nervous
Outgoing
Pessimistic
Skeptical
Quite
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Overseas directors who want to work in Hollywood, the language barrier is not a problem. With the right talent, any director can be successful.
Kim Jee-Woon / Film Director
Barrier
Overseas
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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 Jee-Woon / Film Director
Attained
Reflect
Solved
We Cannot
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One quality that a director needs to acquire in Hollywood is to understand the system and figure out how to work within the system to express one's own ideas.
Kim Jee-Woon / Film Director
Acquire
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I'd like to give the audience what they've always wanted to see and also I want to give the audience what they've never seen. It's these two things I'm striving for.
Kim Jee-Woon / Film Director
Giving
Two
Want
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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.
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Goal
Hollywood
Stories
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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 / Film Director
Ultimate
Ultimate Goal
Me Never Story
Singular
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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.
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Asia
Eastern
Genre
Western
Good Weird Bad
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Initially, before I came to Hollywood, I thought that the language barrier would be the biggest challenge, but I realized that actors all around the world, regardless of language, are all the same.
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Around The World
Challenges
Hollywood
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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.
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Feedback
Instantaneous
Immediate
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Lionsgate and Lorenzo di Bonaventura saw my Korean Western-style film, 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird,' and probably felt that I would be right for 'The Last Stand,' which could be classified as a modern Western.
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Western
Weird
Good Weird Bad
Classified
Saw
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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 / Film Director
Projects
Ties
Life Always Character
Believes
Exactly
Exactly The Way
Factor
Possibly
Wishes
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I work from opposites to opposites, in a way. It's finding one thing and then doing the other from film to film. So maybe after 'I Saw the Devil,' I might do something like 'I Saw the Angel' or perhaps something warm and happy.
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Opposites
Warm
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I never make films thinking 'This is my film. This right here is undoubtedly Kim Jee-Woon style.' I am not even sure what 'Kim Jee-Woon style' is. When I make films, I never allow myself to make hard-set decisions ahead of time.
Kim Jee-Woon / Film Director
Film
Decisions
Time Myself Thinking
Ahead
Allow
Films
Undoubtedly
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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 / Film Director
Reactions
Western
Look People Laugh
Realise
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I prefer to work the old-fashioned way. I trie to do everything or most of his action sequences practically, because I feel that while added effects or the VFX process allows for flashier sequences, I feel that it lacks the energy we see in practical effects.
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Action
Energy
Way
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Interestingly, my first director's cut was an hour and forty-one minutes. Then, the studio actually wanted to add more to the story, so we went all the way up to an hour and forty-seven minutes. After that, I made some additional cuts and now we are where we are.
Kim Jee-Woon / Film Director
Cutting
Firsts
Way
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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 / Film Director
Agree
Love Power People
Different People
Flows
Spot
Vertically
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In Korea, the director has the final word. If the director makes a decision, that decision is final. In Hollywood, every decision needs to go through the producer, the studio, and sometimes even the main actor. There is a certain procedure that needs to be followed.
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Final Word
Followed
Procedure
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The Western is as American as a film can get - there's the discovery of a frontier, the element of a showdown, revenge, and determining the best gunman. There's a certain masculinity to the Western that really appealed to me, and I've always wanted to do a Western in Hollywood.
Kim Jee-Woon / Film Director
Discovery
Masculinity
Revenge
Western
Appealed
Determining
Element
Best Me Always
Frontier
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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.
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Ideology
Flourish
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Of course, 'The Last Stand' has a villain who is traveling to the border to fulfill his own desires, but it's more about the main character. The Sheriff putting a stop to this villain and defending his town. 'The Last Stand' is more about protecting something. About protecting a value.
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Villain
Border
Defending
Sheriff
Desires
Fulfill
Main Character
Protecting
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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. My regard for that character turns out to be a very sympathetic one.
Kim Jee-Woon / Film Director
Regard
Sympathetic
Ties
Turns
Life Always Character
Believes
Exactly The Way
Factor
Wishes
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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 / Film Director
Completion
Different Genres
Genre
Horror
Horror Film
Offers
Projects
Scripts
Sisters
Near
Received
Tale
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To go into more specifics regarding actors, whether they're from Korea or the U.S., all actors know if they are loved by the director. When they feel that love from the director, they respond by giving a great performance on camera. Also, everyone on set - the crew, the actors - they were aware of the film's message and its broad theme, so these big issues were never discussed on set.
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Giving
Issues
Korea
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But when there were certain moments or scenes that required a very specific nuance or performance, I myself would act out the scene or the sequence and that would inspire the actors. Of course, I can't really express emotions on camera, but I was very active in showing a certain action or a blocking for an actor. I would also participate in certain stunts myself and because of that, I would get bruises or cuts on my knees and elbows.
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Block
Cutting
Inspire
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To be honest, I would have to say that there was a certain burden in working with Arnold, a big action star. I am aware that Arnold is loved by the American audience, but rather than focusing on working with Arnold, what I focused on was expressing the character, Sheriff Owens, through Arnold the actor and knowing that Arnold and my idea about Sheriff Owens coincided and that it was about Owens protecting a certain value and justice, I focused more on that aspect that helped me to be more comfortable in working with Arnold.
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Character
Ideas
Stars
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