“Overseas directors who want to work in Hollywood, the language barrier...” — Kim Jee-woon Quote

Overseas directors who want to work in Hollywood, the language barrier is not a problem. With the right talent, any director can be successful.

I want to do science fiction with dark stories.

Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.

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.

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.

The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.

We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.

The first word that always came into my head with Henry VI was 'empathy.' He doesn't have a barrier between what other people feel and what he feels.

Being a musician, I truly believe that a language change cannot be a barrier for a song to penetrate new territories.

We're passionate musicians, but we felt classical concerts were more like a funeral because nobody talked and everybody was dressed so conservatively. We thought that's kind of strange, because music is full of life! We thought we could break through that barrier with theater and comedy elements.