"It was coming from some personal experiences I had. It was really this feeling I was having at the time when some of my professional successes didn't feel like a win. They felt like a loss because of some of the kinds of men I was dating. Men who were threatend by my success in some way. And it just made me realize how much hold these ingrained power dynamics still have over us so this was a feeling I…

“When certain bits of accomplishment or success didn't feel like a win, it felt like a loss in some way. It was because of the type of men I was dating. Men who were threatened by me on some level. And it was that juxtaposition where I felt that I wanted to put that on screen.”

“Kojima’s style breaks the barrier between cinema and games. In a way he’s a film director, but he uses video games to tell the story.” 

“Dumb Money is about the little guy. It’s a David and Goliath story.” 

"I think that's one of the things that learning and studying history does, is it binds us and you start to see the commonalities. You start to see how history repeats."

"I've started to see other human beings' lives as these windows. This beautiful window into another universe. I started to see Flannery as a window into really using her life as an opportunity to really talk about creativity and faith and the intersection of that."

"What is it like to be an artist and being trapped in your own celebrity? And also you need it for love and fame, yet the world wants to put you in a box and won't let you break out."

I know future me is going to watch it and he's going to be like "what the f*ck, who is this?" but it's going to be like emotional. I know ten years from now, who knows where the hell I would be and how much I would have changed the world. "

In the opening moments of Um Tae-hwa’s riveting new disaster epic, an earthquake renders much of Seoul a smouldering ruin. But as survivors begin efforts to restore order, it seems the real calamity has only just begun.