As A Child I Had Terrible Asthma.

The More You See, Especially Being Young, The More You See The Past, The More You Can Draw Upon That And The More You Can Make The Present And The Future. It's How You Process The Past And At Oftentimes In The Picture, There Are References To Certain Imagery From Certain Pictures, And Certain Novels.

I'm Going To Be 60, And I'm Almost Used To Myself.

You Don't Make Pictures For Oscars.

During Prohibition, Atlantic City Created The Idea Of The Speakeasy, Which Turned Into Nightclubs And That Extraordinary Political Complexity And Corruption Coming Out Of New Jersey At The Time. The Long Hand That They Had-and Maybe Still Do-even Had To Do With Presidential Elections.

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.