Director newspeak

What we have to face is what filmmakers everywhere have to face, be it Singapore or the US. Filmmakers everywhere are now obliged to make changes in consideration of the audience, as well as marketing's taste and distribution. We have to go through this process, and accept comments, in order to get a better result

Hong Kong director Tsui Hark, whose film All About Women was pulled from the Pusan film festival because it had not been cleared by Beijing censors, uses an Orwellian explanation following his festival masterclass to say why giving up control to authorities is a good thing