A handsome devil with a cigarette

"The first film I worked with Tony Leung Chiu-Wai was Days of Being Wild. He is a quiet man who likes to smoke a lot. Somehow, we get along well and have worked on four subsequent films. We communicate in rather peculiar ways. Most of the time, we don’t have a complete script. Often, I give Tony a song or some music as reference. I don’t know whether my working style fits Tony, but throughout these years, he seldom complains. Most of the time, when I ask him to listen to a piece of music, he would do so sitting in a corner, holding a cigarette and peeking at me with a devilish smile. Osamu Dazai once wrote a short story entitled 'A Handsome Devil with a Cigarette.' I had always thought it was a great title for a film. I like Dazai a lot. Tony reminds me of him."

WKW