"I just don't particularly enjoy movies about people, in which people are sitting around drinking soju, saying- saying things that you hear every [day]. I mean, when I approach a novel I expect to be brought into contact with somebody special in some way and I find that [South] Koreans tend to enjoy fictional and cinematic depictions of normal everyday group life. They want to see a mirror and they will sit back and nod at that and I just have to say it doesn't do very much for me."