“When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture. And also Catholicism is also part of the Western tradition that comes into Korea. So you can say also that my film [Thirst] is about things that are coming from the outside entering in, such as this virus that enters into the priest, changing him [into a vampire]. So we’re looking at things from the exterior entering into the interior and whether our inside can accept this thing that has entered from the outside or whether it will reject it.”