Wong Jing
On the eve of the opening of his new movie “To Live and Die in Mongkok,” renowned director Wong Jing talks to June Ng about marriage, communism and those infamous “dirty jokes.”
My career began at a TV station as a scriptwriter. It was nothing more than a job to me but writing is obviously my strength.
I studied Chinese at university simply because I’m an opportunist. It’s so hard to get into higher education and I got an A in Chinese in all my public exams but I’m not particularly passionate about the language.
I simply have a super ability for memorizing things. I can memorize irrelevant numbers and even passages that I don’t understand.
I do it real fast: when people need 30 hours, I only use an hour and a half.
Studying well and performing well in exams are two difference things. I’m only good at the latter.
Being a university student was my part-time job. My full-time job was a scriptwriter for a TV station. I got full-time employment terms and was the assistant creative director by the time I was in Year 4. The company just couldn’t function without me even though I told them I had to make time to go to school.
It’s not hard to get a job in TV. It’s no trouble at all if you’re talented. People who moan about getting left out are all talentless.