So, that stalled for an hour or so, but, ticking, tick tick tick, all that is money. And he called back to his headquarters, and asked for the allowance to say: They want to do this and that, so can we please…
After days of freezing, multimillion dollars was lost during that process. And at the time I was releasing a lot of music videos, I was doing a lot of concerts, and advertisement and movies, I wanted to enhance the visual effects myself, and I thought wow, this should be our realm. That’s our profession, why are we doing so poor in it?
So then, if some of you may have read through my interviews, that I did sell my property, for a certain amount of money to invest in this business. I started off with 4-6 people, and I bought 1 or 2 second hand machines to start it off. And, luckily, I am here today. But, what message I wanna get through is, it seems like Nicholas Tse gambled everything away for the future. I didn’t. It is a gamble, but, before I bought those second hand machines, I actually calculated and talked to a few producers and we signed contracts for 3 movies, 2 advertisements, and 3 music videos so that we’d cover my one and a half years overhead, ahead of time. So if I was to fail, I somewhat had a safety net, that I won’t just kill myself because I sold my house, sold everything, what I have left. So I did have a bit of a safety net. I don’t want to give the wrong message out to the public that ‘he just sold everything, so we can do that too.’ Please do not.
Alright, so, when I was saying, be honest to yourself if you want to be successful, because, some of us say we want to be successful but, we don’t wanna succeed more than we wanna sleep. We don’t wanna succeed more than we look cool，and go to the …. tonight , we don’t want to succeed more than hanging out with friends，going to a cinema，you must be honest to yourself and find your automatic passion, so therefore, are you willing to sacrifice all these temptations to prevent you from practicing your art? I don’t believe the saying of practice makes perfect, to me, there is no perfection, there should always be room for improvement, practice to me, practice makes permanence, you will only have a much higher probability not to mess thing up, but there is no perfection. That’s to me. Any questions so far?
These 3 guys are actually really intimating right now, because it feels like that at any moment they’re gonna chuck some intellectual question like ninja’s darts.
GIRL: this is the question from us.
BOY: you basically answered about half of question already, so
NIC: because the angle you sitting, the angle you sitting,
Q: So, really thanks for your brief introduction, and a warm welcome to today’s Asian leadership series again, so just before our conversation begin, would you prefer us to call you NIC or just Nicholas (yes…) so, ah, NIC, as we know that you have established a very successful company and we know, we have saw a sample work from Canon, we want to know what is the greatest challenge when you starting up your company?
NIC: The greatest challenge really is to earn trust of clients at the age of 23,because it is a human natural instinct not to believe in someone 10 or 20 years, younger than you, and to establish that trust is a reputation, but that together, it takes time. And we started offer really miniture size work, and earned the trust of some directors and said, you know, are you guys ready go to the next level? I personally say yes, but then what I’ve learnt is that saying yes doesn’t mean anything, because no one wants to fall, and it is a cruel world out there. People will start blaming stuff, and say well, nic, he screwed it up, it’s not me.
So, what I’ve done, what I change to these years, I don’t say yes any more, I go back and ask my team do you think do this ,and if so, why don’t we do a 30 seconds demo to shut their mouth , So the hardest part, the hardest challenge is to, I think for any business is to earn the trust. actually, mentioning that, I myself, I ,ever since I was little, I love Hong Kong action movies, I still do, I really do, it’s all my passion ,being honest to myself, I love action movies, and I am willing to put my life on the line, literally, if it takes, and to protect HK action. So 10 years ago ,I made myself a promise, that if I’m gonna be in this business, I wanna, I wanna be an action star, at least participate in one of Jack Cheng’s cool movies, or the Jet Li movies or the Donnie Yen movies. I will show you this, actually, it is more a present to my son, it is a 2 minutes video for his first birthday, some of my favourite stunts, please do not try this at home, because what you’re about to see for the next 2 minutes, I have been training for12 years, and a lot of luck is involved, that’s why I’m saying practice only makes permanence, because the more I do this in this chance, I will die.
