Mabel Cheung Quotes

I like the powerful story, the excellent performances the beautiful cinematography and the vision of the "The Piano".

I'm a hopeless romantic. I consider myself a realistic person who usually finds stories from real life people.

I have always wanted to make a film about my parents' generation, which tried every way to escape from the deadly shadow of war and finally settled down in Hong Kong in the '50s to build a home from nothing. Arguably, they are the first generation of Hong Kong people to turn this remote island into a modern city.

Being a very bad daughter, I never really took time to sit down and listen to my mother's story, and she passed away in 2003. I became very guilty and began to spend a lot of time with older people. I listened carefully to their stories.