A Q&A with Stoker Director Park Chan-wook. Having already made such celebrated and controversial movies as Oldboy and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Korean director Park Chan-wook just saw the release of his first Hollywood film, Stoker. The filmmaker sat down with TIME, and speaking through a translator, discussed his new movie, Oldboy, and the challenges of working in a foreign country.
You’ve had other opportunities to make American films. What were your reservations about making this transition? When I say that I am going to do an American film, I didn’t want to suddenly go off into a completely different world that which bears no relation to the style of filmmaking that I’m used to. So finding the right script was very important… What I liked about [Wentworth Miller's] script was that it wasn’t full of car chases or things blowing up, it wasn’t full of people chattering away.
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