Director Pang Ho-cheung
Pang Ho-cheung, the director of “Isabella” and “Exodus”, explains why the best road to optimism is a little pessimism.
During Form 4, I became determined to become a director. I wasn’t good at anything. I was a failed student. I was not strong enough for heavy labor.
Limited choices have made me who I am today. Many people can’t make up their minds simply because they have too many options.
I have to thank my parents for their harsh advice. They said, “You won’t be good at school. Why don’t you go down to the movie companies and see if you can find anything there?”
No one can become a director with the snap of a finger. I started first as a screenwriter, and I wrote novels. I spent more than a year doing research for a story about a hit man.
I’ve never had any formal training. The difference between learning from experience and learning from formal training is you have to go through many real life trials and errors. In school, everything is a simulation.
No matter what you do, be confident about what you want. People fail mostly because they keep vacillating.