“I’m not conscious, what I’m really trying to do when I shoot a movie. I was just looking at it as more or less like a toy, something which I like to play with and try to impress people. I think that is actually something not so bad. I mean like doing it for the fun of it, instead of doing it as a real sacred job. I think it should be both.”

— Ann Hui

as a comparison of her artistic filmmaking ethos in relation to the Hong Kong New Wave and the Taiwanese New Wave
In Conversation with Ann Hui & Man Lim Chung | SGIFF 2020 - 15 Dec 2020 at 39 Min 32 Sec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT-7lyGwm5k
Interview at the 31st Singapore International Film Festival

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