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'AI will never replace the heart of a story & emotion'
Khaleej Times
|December 11, 2025
Hong Kong filmmaker Stanley Tong opened his Bridge Summit session with a story that drew immediate laughter - and a reminder of how precarious the early years of his career were.
Stanley Tong, Executive Producer, Director and Screenwriter, China Film International Media, at the Bridge Summit on Tuesday.
(hameem husain/khaleejtimes)
"You buy the cars in the junkyard... You have a door on this side, you don’t have a door on the other," he said. With just $200 for a paint job, he would dress up battered vehicles and “pretend to be an international movie,” because Hong Kong’s tiny market left directors scrambling to stretch every dollar.
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