It’s like a school teacher. Most of the students would listen and look up to the school teacher.

If you have a comfortable life then you’re going to become a nice sort of couch potato, and just take it in and be brain dead.

Now I see a better breed of young Singaporeans who are more vocal and will make certain changes to the country.

We only had bullet points in our script,

I don’t want to wait another seven years to make a movie,

She wrote me letters saying ‘Hurry up, lah!’ and ‘Forget about the script. Just come and film it and get it done’. … Deep down, I didn’t want to let her down.

He said he wanted to help me, … He said he would give me $2,000 to make a movie!

When I saw (Tan’s movie) 15, I thought this guy is just up there, you know, … I said, ‘Look Roy, just do a feature. Don’t worry, we’ll get the money, and you keep the...

. But I see bigger and better things.