Author: Thomas Coll Archives: 09/2023

“This is going to reinvent the spy genre.”

It’s been rumoured for years.

Hoping to follow in writers’ footsteps.

“You’d never get permission to film this way now.”

“We can’t even imagine another movie spellbinding us.”

“That film was not supposed to be what I wound up with.”

Nailing the brief.

“Which means: I can’t work here.”

A childhood hero.

“I still see scenes in films that I’ve done and go, ‘God, why did I make that choice?’”

“A true renaissance man.”

“Ode to the golden era of Korean cinephilia.”