“I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.” Quote by Charlie Kaufman
“There are so many people who are making movies now who can’t get any kind of distribution, so the market seems like it’s flooded.” PeopleKindSeemsDistribution Author:Charlie Kaufman
“Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things, and it can break down something that polishes the filthy things with filthy things.” BreakActiveDiscriminationPoetry IsMainstreamPassiveMinorsBreaking DownPolishFilthyMinor Things Author:Kim Hyesoon
“Our [western] culture embraces sex addiction. If I drink too much or rack up credit-card debt or lose the rent in Vegas, that's bad. But if I have many lovers, that's good.” IfsCultureSexLosesToo MuchLoversDrinkEmbraceWesternAddictionCreditDebtCardsVegasCredit CardRacksWestern CultureSex AddictionCredit Card Debt Author:Susan Cheever
“It is difficult to disturb the common usage of Korean that is bent to the perspective of a male-oriented society. Korean society is based on both a politics and history that have been disguised as a solid society of solid male poems, a solid written language, fixed rules of how to write literature, and a narrative language.” WritingHas BeensLiteratureLanguageDifficultCommonWrittenPerspectiveMalesNarrativeFixedBentKoreanUsageWritten Language Author:Kim Hyesoon
“We carve on our body what society teaches us and continue this task, not knowing the identity they force us to have. This identity is carved on our faces and our skins. Not knowing our bodies have become "the paper made of human meat," we stuff our bodies and make them a theater where cultural symbols or suppressed symbols play.” HumansMadePlayBodyFacesForceStuffTeachKnowingIdentityPaperTasksSkinsTheaterSymbolsMeatNot Knowing Author:Kim Hyesoon
“I came to grotesque language in the patriarchal culture under the dictatorship. The body that was broken into pieces is a sick body. I put the disease of this world and my sick body together.” WorldBodyTogetherCultureLanguagePiecesThis WorldBrokenDiseaseSickDictatorshipGrotesque Author:Kim Hyesoon
“The grotesque in my poems is the motion I use to put myself and the grotesque world together. So the miserable images I use in my poems are the same as the letters I send into the miserable world.” WorldUseTogetherLettersMiserableGrotesque Author:Kim Hyesoon
“In my opinion, poets talk through the symptoms of disease. These symptoms of disease are predictions, screams, and songs.” SongOpinionPoetDiseaseScreamPredictionsSymptoms Author:Kim Hyesoon
“The body of poetry is nothing but energy, waves, rhythm.” BodyEnergyWaveRhythmPoetry Is Author:Kim Hyesoon
“We have certain rules for traditional lyric poetry in Korea. I twist my body, confused by what to say and how to act, facing these rules. Confronting traditional lyricism, I speak with a bare body without the tattoos of culture on it.” BodyCertainCultureSpeakTraditionalConfusedTattooTwistsKoreaConfrontingLyric Poetry Author:Kim Hyesoon