如果沒有胡明進，這部電影應該會很不一樣吧。
I don’t think I can made this film if I didn’t have Ming Jin as producer.

我有很多的故事和構想，但是總是天馬行空，雜亂無章的。尤其是生完小孩之後，根本無法專注下來看一本書，更別談創作。
I am someone who has a lot of random ideas and my mind is usually quite scattered. Especially after I became a mother I could not focus on writing or reading. It is constantly of a mess.

我記得明進第一次聽我說這個電影構思，他是不假思索就要幫我做監製了。那時候，我的劇本也就只有五頁紙。之後我們不定期約了在咖啡館見面。裡面的人物，情節，我想法很多，他總是可以幫我釐清一些脈絡。
Ming Jin immediately offered to produce the film for me when he first heard my idea. And then we consistently meet up in cafes, i will tell him my new scenes, and we keep talking about the stories, the characters, and bounces back and forth. It was really fun and things move fast this way.

老實說，我從2002年認識Ming Jin，同事多年，也一直是好朋友，但是從來沒有想過他原來是個好監製。他屬於那種建構型的創作者。了解敘事結構，人物塑造，可以輕易地拍出他完全沒有生活經驗的故事。
To think about it, I had never see Ming Jin as a producer. He is a good filmmaker, I often think he is the type of intelligent filmmaker who knows about film structure, who knows how to construct something that he has no experience with.

我是那種依賴生命經驗的導演。另一個導演朋友笑我：“Mui你的人生經驗太豐富了。”
I am a filmmaker who relied a lot on my experiences. I think it was Aditya Assarat who made that remark, “Mui, you have too much life experiences.”

Meeting up with Ming JIn in random cafes, in SS2, Taman Tun, Subang, or Kelanan Jaya..

找到明進做監製，是一個美麗的意外。
It was also a happy accident how Ming Jin became my producer.

開始的想法，我打算自己要監製。那一年7月我已經去普吉島拍了三分之一的素材了。
At first I was planning to produce the film on my own. So we shot something in July 2019 and then I want to go back again in December to shoot the other part of the stories. But I was quite lost.

11月時Bianca來吉隆坡，我們約了見面。明進剛好也在。
In November Bianca was in KL, and I wanted to meet her. Ming Jin was there in the cafe.

我一直有跟Bianca合作的想法，就跟她說了我的進行中的這個《野蠻人入侵》的故事。明進突然插進來說，我來給你監製！
I had always want to work with Bianca, so I told her this story I had been working on, even shot the part one in Phuket already. Ming Jin heard the story, and immediately offered to produce for me, even before Bianca said anything.

那一天下午，我忽然找到了兩個監製。
So on that day I found myself two great producers. And I was very happy.

之後我們一起見了三次。
We had 3 more coffee and lunch sessions in the next two months.

能跟自己喜歡的朋友共事，是很美好的。
It is always nice to work with people you like. :)