You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you

I interviewed Jeff Lau chun-wai this morning. He needs no introducing to "local" film buffs, but I'll do it anyways--he's the dude who directed Stephen Chow in his first "hit" movie, All For The Winners. More importantly, he's also the man behind the two-parter Chinese Odyssee movie (I believe that was Karen Mok's film debut?), which is quite possibly Stephen Chow's most "revered" works among the film buffs. It's not as mainstream popular as Shaolin Soccer or laugh out loud as God of Cookery, but that is his best work. The final line muttered by Stephen Chow's Monkey King, about his regret over not cherishing love, is quite possibly the most popular movie dialogue about love in Cantonese cinema history. Jeff Lau wrote that line.

I was pretty excited about meeting him and we talked about his new film Kung Fu Cyborg for a bit, which is looking to be a big budget special effects-driven Chinese blockbuster. But of course, my real interest was talking about his legendary work of the 90s.

After the interview, we were making small talk and he told me,

"Whatever slump you're in, it's okay. You're young. It's important to do what you love."

Words of wisdom from a man who wrote/directed perhaps the "deepest" slapstick comedy ever.