Jumping from 41st floor is not that wise, but I did that 19 times.
Yea, and that was only one or 2 feet away from breaking my neck
That’s the Convention Centre.
It’s funny they say you can put these paddings on, but wherever you hit, it never hits the pad, it hits you.
NIC: Now I tell you my son will not understand this message for another 20 years.
Thank god I’m still here one piece, but that’s how far I’m willing to go for what I love. Of course, I’m not asking you to go jump off buildings.
Q: I’ve actually seen this video about ten times. (really?) yeah! It still gives my goose bumps every time I watch it. It’s very emotionally touching, but shifting the focus on these students, and you have definitely found your passion, but how would advise us for finding our dreams and our passions?
NIC: like I said, I think be honest to yourself. So, I don’t think anyone can answer that question for you, it’s what you feel every day, you have to live with it, you have to smell it, you have to feel it, you have to touch it, it’s everything around you, something that never bores you, I guess, if you are hesitating for something, give it a second thought, but I’m here mainly to trial and error, and I guess that’s part of life,
you only start losing things when you start growing, but that’s contradictive, philosophical part of life ,so like when we 12 ,we are so eager to be 18 and say that I am old enough to stay up, I am old enough to go clubbing, I am old enough to click the porn button, but ,but when you do get older, like I am now, we lose the standard, we stared losing a lot of reflexes, speed, power, all of that, then, we start treasuring stuff, but ,what you love the most, ask yourself, I don’t think anyone can really tell you that question ,or the answer.
Q: well, but like sometimes if we find our own dream, we may not follow, like we cannot listen to our hearts ,because our social norms, or expectations from our parents, so what if I, can you give us students on really pursuing on your dream and stick to your mind.
NIC: I don’t think anyone, unless your dream is something that is so destructive that you’re hurting someone else, I don’t think anybody would stop u from pursuing your dreams, right? if it’s something constructive, or something we don’t normal, I would say, it should be OK, you are not trying to kill someone, and ,and make a statement ,that’s what I did in my stunts, you know ,I didn’t just go about talking to the director saying, I wanna do action movies, someone jump off. I trained, and I start going little stunts, I started to train weapons, my fitness, the whole thing, it has to start from scratch, so you want to prove someone wrong, prove them wrong.
Q: regarding this as Asian leadership series for you, we invite you to talk about your passion, your leadership experience, then what do you think is the one key leadership quality that you think is the most important to you to success?
NIC: one of the most important leadership qualities, I think, is to know yourself, and to place the correct people in the correct position, you know, really, after I’ve started this company, a lot of people say, they ask me, right to the point, what the hell do you know about post production?
And, to be honest, if you ask me to sit in front of a multimillion dollar machine, and ask me to … will I do as my staff, I will not. I will fail. I will crash. But, I don’t know how many of you follow football, but for example, let’s say, last night Chelsea and Manchester United play a game, see we’ve got people’s reactions now.
The manager of Manchester United, MR. Ferguson, he is not going on the field doing corner kicks and free kicks and the taking ball, he is placing the correct people in the correct position, if Rooney scored a goal, is it purely Rooney’s glory that he scored the goal, or was it also because MR Ferguson placed him in the correct position, so he had the chance to be assisted then to score? So I think to place correct people in correct position to do their work, do the jobs, and to inspire, to dedicate, to motivate, all that together seam through your staff. Being honest to yourself, your work and your staff. All the things together, I think is good.
Q: Speaking of your human resources, cooperation, we have about 350 students sitting here today, and they might just happens to be interested to applying for your company. (feel free, please, please, please) Just maybe! Just maybe! So, For qualities of your employees, what’s your specific qualities of your employees you’ll be looking for?
NIC: Creative thinking. Because in a business like ours, it’s imperative, that every job is unique, we cannot duplicate jobs. Actually I’m not quite happy with my business model because of that, because it makes very tough. We’re not in a job, where robots and machines, can just keep printing and make money of that product. Each job is unique. So when I look for people, in our staffs, I look for creative thinking, motivation, energy that they want to bring into the image, and of course, technique, and maybe some inward sense or talents.
