Although I'm gay, I'm not particularly eager to deal with 'gay issues' in the films I make. This film came about entirely by chance. Zhang Yongning (who plays Daning in the film) found the original, anonymously written novel on the internet and asked me if I would like to direct a film adaptation. I read it and found the passions in the central relationship interesting -- and so I agreed to make the film. In my last film The Island Tales, I made simple things too complicated. And so this time I've tried to make complicated things less complicated, or simple things even simpler.
-- Stanley KWAN