The Most Important Thing Is The Script.

People Have To Start Talking To Know More About Other Cultures And To Understand Each Other.

I Do Prefer Doing More Takes. There's Something Very Organic That Comes From The First Take, But Certain Things Come Out. More Details Come Out, In The Way Another Actor Says Something. It's Always This Investigative Process. You Come Further And Further To The Truth, The More You Escalate. I Like To Do A Lot Of Takes. I Have A Hunger For It. I Like To See What There Is To Discover In A Scene, That Hasn't Been Thought Of.

Hong Kong Cinema Is Something You Can't Duplicate Anyway.

I Wish I Could Play Music. I Think I Get As Closeas Possible With The Editing Of The Films. Over The Years Musichas Been An Even More Important Influence Than-or As Important As-film.there's No Doubt About It. Painting, Movement, Dance, Sculpture-it'sall In Cinema.

There Is Something Particularly Unique About The Films Of Hong Sang-soo...it's Got To Do With His Masterful Sense Of Storytelling... As The Critic Manny Farber Once Said Of Hitchcock's Rope Hong Sang-soo's Pictures Unpeel Like An Orange.