Troubled women! I love films about them and their family! In Mother Tongue everyone is troubled. I’m a big advocate of wabi wabi, a traditional Japanese aesthetics with a world view centred on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. In the film I play a mother who is trying to reconnect with her baby, which she was forced to give away by her mother when she was young.

I really empathise with the character of Wao, always trying to design a life that in her mind can impress her mother. As all characters, all she wants is love from her mother. I draw from personal experience to develop this character.

Working with Mike was an unforgettable experience. He is real actor's director. He brings a unique perspective to the film.

Extremely tough! Everything went out of whack! Things are trying to balance out but there is a process to experience. It has definitely has hampered everything. But when where there is a will, there is a way.

The character of Wao makes it easy to navigate through the role. Her single mindedness for her dream life and dream family gives hers a uber focused path. But as in reality the more you are uber focused, you can also miss what you really should be focusing on.

It is a tough balancing act of acting and producing in the same film. I need to learn to switch my hats a bit better. Unfortunately, I’m a bit of a control freak.

When I was young I was fortunate enough to be hanging out with legendary singers of Hong Kong at that time. It was the biggest introduction to the music scene.

The documentary came at the perfect time. It was during the time when my husband was going through some health issues, they were life or death. We’ve always wanted to explore our passions more and when my husband came out of the hospital alive, it was the perfect opportunity to go further this path.

It's definitely a compliment, I guess it is the spirit of doing something different, something outside of the box is the similarities we have.

Our whole film company 852 Films was formed based on the amalgamation of east and west. My husband and I embody both. It is great to see the fruits of this east and west frontier blossom with films like Parasite and Squid Game. We were fortunate enough to be on this frontier with our film Dream Home in 2010, a slasher film about soaring property prices in Hong Kong. It was the early stages of this, Before you only gained notoriety, now the business has caught up with that.