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Bong Joon-ho

Film director and screenwriter

South Korea · b. 1969

South Korean director and screenwriter whose films include Memories of Murder, The Host, Snowpiercer and Parasite. Parasite won the Palme d'Or in 2019 and the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2020, the first non-English-language film to do so.

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What is the part of your job that people would be surprised is most of your job?

I’m a rather slow writer and I have to go to a coffee shop. I turn my back to the crowd in the cafe, so that everyone’s chatting and the noise of the place rises behind me, and then I just keep my head down and churn out my screenplay. I can’t write at home, because I get too lazy. I’ll just want to watch TV or fall asleep. But I’m not allowed to lie down and fall asleep in the cafe, right? So it kind of forces me to work.

Recorded The Hollywood Reporter, The Hollywood Reporter interview, 1 January 2019 source

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