I work a lot on my storyboard but I don't necessarily think specifically about that i.e., at this point in time it's going to be comedy, at the next moment it's going to be drama. I follow my instinct when I'm shooting — I don't calculate everything in detail i.e., will the gin & tonic be made with 40 per cent of gin and 60 per cent of tonic? I focus basically on the situation, the actual moment in time. I think spectators are more used to seeing genre films. As a director, quite frankly, I don't think about all these things in any conscious way. It's when I look at the end result, the final film, I suddenly realise, yes, maybe this scene looks very carefully thought out beforehand, but that's not the case.
Press conference for Gisaengchung (2019) at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.