Her first film after graduating was the 1988 work The Other Half and the Other Half, which explored the uncomfortable problem of spouses being separated by national boundaries, a familiar situation in Hong Kong, which is a cradle of emigration.
羅卓瑤的電影導演處女作，是一九八八年的《我愛太空人》，已經流露出不甘從俗的企圖心，以香港人因「坐移民監」而與配偶天各一方的現象為題材，在港片中可謂先知先覺。