I Just - I Kind Of See

The Only Thing I Really Wanted Was The Freedom To Be Able To Get What I Want On Film. I’ve Dealt With The Mpaa Since 1973, So I Know How To Renegotiate And Rework.

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.

Any Film, Or To Me Any Creative Endeavour, No Matter Who You're Working With, Is, In Many Cases, A Wonderful Experience.

Always Get To The Set Or The Location Early, So That You Can Be All Alone And Draw Your Inspiration For The Blocking And The Setups In Private And Quiet. In One Sense, It's About Protecting Yourself; In Another Sense, It's About Always Being Open To Surprise, Even From The Set, Because There May Be Some Detail That You Hadn't Noticed. I Think This Is Crucial. There Are Many Pictures That Seem Good In So Many Ways Except One: They Lack A Sense Of Surprise, They've Never Left The Page.

Every Year Or So, I Try To Do Something; It Keeps Me Refreshed As To What's Going On In Front Of The Lens, And I Understand What The Actor Is Going Through.