I would'nt even dare to speak about my artistic ambitions. It's difficult to exist in the film industry in Hong Kong . As a filmmaker, I try to print a particular style to my movies. Take people like Ann Hui, Wong Kar Wai or myself : from our very beginning, we wanted to shoot with the greatest comedians, because we knew that their names on the bill will allow our films to be distributed properly, and perhaps to meet the success at the box office. It was only after obtaining the those actors consent that we can begin to try to impose our own style, our artistic point of view. We remain into the system, while trying to keep us far from the mainstream, both by the topics covered in our movies and by our way of shooting. But it's definitely the success at the box office which gives us the opportunity to make more ambitious films on the artistic level.

The filmmakers of the Fifth Generation in China , or the Taiwan "authors" can make films with unknown actors, even with "amateurs". This is almost inconceivable in Hong Kong . Of course this kind of films also exists in Hong Kong , but they are very rare.