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Approaching Director Wong Karwai
He became interested in photographing when pursuing his studies in the Hong
Kong Polytechnic University. After graduation, Wong attended TVB's training
class of TV production. Afterwards, he participated in the productions of a
series of teleplays as the assistant, during which time he soon grew into an
outstanding screenwriter. 
In 1982, Wong Karwai left TVB and wrote ten film scripts in the next five
years. Wong Karwai began his career as a movie director in 1988 when he
successfully directed his maiden work As Tears Go By, which was screened at
Cannes in 1989.
Actually, before Wong Karwai became a director, he had 12 years of
screenwriting experience, which established a solid groundwork for his current
career. So when he truly began to direct his films, he wrote the plays himself,
a practice he continues to this day. However, unlike other directors, Wong
Karwai never has a whole script before he directs his films.
"When I begin to shoot a new film, first of all, I shoot the general plots of
the film, meanwhile, I amend my plays while shooting," he says. This is why you
can see many night scenes in Wong's films, for he has to write and rewrite his
playbooks in the daytime. "It is not right to say that I care nothing about the
audience. However, when I'm truly involved in the process, I only think from my
own perspective." Wong says that his films are shot for the audience, but not
only for their satisfaction.
In Wong Karwai's words, many actors do not like to cooperate with him in
shooting films since he has been very strict with his work, which has to be
revised and cut once and again. The actors have to bear the risk that their
performance might be cut sometime. In spite of all these, Wong Karwai is such a
director with the charm to make those even world-famous stars wish to be in the
cast of his movies, even with lower pay.
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