Brief Encounter

“Finally, it's here. Before I wrote Decision to Leave... I recommended that my co-writer, Jeong Seo-kyeong, watch this once. It's a film that really influenced me when I was young.”

“Brief Encounter is so beautiful. That’s one of the movies that— Didn’t Jack Nicholson recommend that you watch it? Yes. He was my mentor and he gave me a movie list, and that was one.”

“Here's Brief Encounter, a movie that is just one of the most perfect of British mid-century film history that inspired and formed the sort of structure around my film Carol and the Performance, Celia Johnson's Performance, and the cinematography and Noel Coward's writing and anyway it's an amazing movie and I don't know if I have it on Blu-ray so I'll just stick it in my bag.”