No matter where I am working, I cannot make a film without 100% creative control and final cut. If there is such a guarantee, I can work anywhere.
Interpretation
Creative control is essential for artistic expression and satisfaction.
Bong Joon-Ho emphasizes that the ability to maintain complete creative control and have the final say over his films is crucial to his work as a filmmaker. This insistence highlights the importance of artistic autonomy, suggesting that true creativity can only flourish when an artist is free to make their own decisions without external interference.
In practice
In a discussion about filmmaking, one might say, 'As Bong Joon-Ho states, one cannot make a film without 100% creative control.'
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I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge to make audiences thrill with the excitement of a genre, but I also try to betray and destroy the expectations placed on that genre.
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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.
The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself...Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel.
Black and white might be sufficient. But why deprive yourself of color.
There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
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