Mukhsin - Yasmin cakap..

"If you watch carefully, you'll find that ALL my films are about God's mercy" (via sms)

Q&A berikut ialah copy+paste dr blog journalist Indonesia - Hera Diani:

http://hdiani.blogspot.com/2006/09/yasmin-ahmad.html

so, jangan tuduh saya plagiat okk!

What is Mukhsin all about?

It’s a very simple film. I’ve made complex filmmaking in commercials so many years that I’m bored with it. So, I wanna make it simple, like Japanese filmmakers Yasujiro Ozu. People say Sepet is too simple, but Japanese like it simple. Today, you’re going to see Mukhsin, which is even simpler than Sepet. Gubra (note: colloquial Malay word for ‘anxiety’) is more complex, and now I don’t care. So, people who said that Sepet is too simple will be more frustrated with Mukhsin.

Do you always have to write and direct your films? Are you willing to direct other scripts, or vice versa?

I don’t think I will direct other people’s script. I will encourage them to direct themselves. People direct my script..maybe, I suppose. But I want to direct it myself. I’m not very good, but I enjoy making it. It’s fun. If I direct somebody else’s script, I cannot change the script.Initially, Mukhsin is very complex, but I removed so many things along the way, together with my cinematographer and my editor. Always the three of us work together. We even sleep in the same small apartment while we’re making the movie. I always consult them together. We’ve the same references, they know the kind of movie I want, they know I want to capture the emotion once.The story of Mukshin is the simplest so far, but the emotion I think is very complex. The simpler the film, the complex the emotion.