Went to the Wayne Wang lecture this morning at GV Vivocity. Wayne is an Asian American director famous for films like Joy Luck Club, Maid in Manhatten, Eat a bowl of tea etc. Wayne has spent time both in San Francisco and New York and has particular interest in Asian American women's stories.
He went through the journey of his life and films. What's interesting about him is that he has made both indie productions all the way to major Hollywood productions. In comparing indie to Hollywood productions, he said that while Hollywood has big budgets, he is very limited in what he can change as any changed from the approved script needs to go through several layers of approval from the studio before the change can be made. On the other hand, as an indie director, he makes all the creative decisions and can really shoot the film by the seat of his pants.. actually building the story as he goes even. Since I don't have experience shooting Hollywood films, I guess I'll just treasure the flexibility we have now in our small shoots.
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