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Kim Bora Quotes

born 1981 South Korea

Kim Bora (born November 30, 1981) is a South Korean film director. Her 2018 film House of Hummingbird won numerous accolades at prestigious international film festivals.

South Korea
Film directors

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Cinema takes me to another world. That world is authentic, real, and welcoming. Cinema doesn’t belong to the winner but to the loser/loner. The blissful loser. I like that world.

Growing up as a woman in Korea was tough, but was also a gift at the same time. If I were a Korean man, or a white male in the States, I would not have been able to make this film. You got to experience complex human emotions because you were going through a lot of things.

I wanted to produce something that would resonate strongly with the audience. When we showed it to the Korean audience, they said it was a good mix of both the personal and political aspects of that era.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kim Bora (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.