When Dong Mau Anh Hung was first screened in Vietnam, what did you expect?
I was very anxious, not only for myself but for the whole company involved with the movie. I wasn’t sure how the audience would react with Dong Mau Anh Hung. Looking back, I thought it was like gambling and I was too risky. I didn’t know much about the Vietnamese audience or Vietnamese market; I didn’t even know how to do the PR thing. And the most important thing was I couldn’t do as much as I had imagined in my head about Dong Mau Anh Hung. There were many things I intended to do but I can’t due to the lack of experience and unrealistic scheduling. Can you provide some examples? Hmm, in some locations, we planned to shoot in only 4 or 5 days. But after 5 days, we didn’t finished what we set out to do. The budget must have been increased by that. As of ideas, I had many ideas floating around my head all the time but I couldn’t do it, either. Do you remember the labor camp scene when Cuong and Thuy escaped from that with a motorbike? Yes? Originally, it wasn’t so simple like that in my
