"I have nothing against commercial films, but if you’re in a movie, [and] you feel the script and everything else about it has no meaning – it’s just another production that the boss can add to his list – I don’t think you should do it."
- Maggie Cheung
![Photo of a paragraph from WKW: The Cinema of Wong Kar Wai:
This attitude has shaped Wong and Co.'s filmmaking. They always want to do something new—film in Argentina or Manchuria, shoot Fallen Angels with a wide-angle lens, make a martial arts movie whose stars are better at acting than flying leaps and windmill kicks. Why is there so much green in Days of Being Wild? "Because Fuji [film] is blue and Kodak [film] is red and we wanted to do something different," Doyle told me. "Novelty is a generous enough incentive to push you somewhere you haven't been."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lvlyu7glss4uydaxgmeybt65/bafkreigwyue6hip3jwutdsn5765ninp6dxpxeourfhjmrtobedqp774roa)
